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  • adjective Alternative form of looksist.

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Examples

  • Knowing that I was nowhere as attractive as my ex a fact my kids like to point out on a regular basis but being a complete 'lookist' until quite recently, it can take a while to work out that beauty really is skin deep.

    The Ex Factor juliette 2009

  • I have three masters degrees; my literacy levels are usually adequate to decipher most things, although I admit the word 'lookist' is one I have yet to encounter.

    unknown title 2009

  • I have three masters degrees; my literacy levels are usually adequate to decipher most things, although I admit the word 'lookist' is one I have yet to encounter.

    unknown title 2009

  • I looked up 'lookist' but could only find it in American online dictionaries with the definition below.

    unknown title 2009

  • And don't imagine that any gender is free of lookist attitudes.

    A Pretty Dumb Hypothesis About Good Looks Eric Felten 2010

  • The face is the first to show it and, as we live in a cruelly lookist world, this leads people to jump to the conclusion that the rest has gone too.

    Britain's cult of youth is out of control Emma Soames 2010

  • This is very lookist of me, but I love, love, love his headshot.

    “Ah, that must be exhausting.” | clusterflock 2009

  • If that's what he was laughing at, he's a big old homophobe or lookist or something... in which case we are entitled to look at him and laugh back.

    For the annals of anti-Althousiana. Ann Althouse 2009

  • I thought I'd go nuts while a critical mass of women deliberated whether the criticism of Palin was sexist or classist or lookist; thank God sensible people all settled on the fact that her selection was opportunistic and that's she's just a big fraud.

    Night of the Long Knives. LuLu 2008

  • I didn't even make a big deal out of the fact that these so-called feminists stooped to making numerous sexist, ageist, and lookist comments, betraying their own principles ... and demonstrating, as they did in so many ways, that they don't know how to argue on the merits.

    I don't know what you were doing last night. Ann Althouse 2006

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  • A practice or person containing or expressing lookism.

    November 3, 2017