Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Disliking or fearing homosexuals to an unreasonable degree.
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- adjective Relating to or characteristic of
homophobia orhomophobes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective prejudiced against homosexual people
Etymologies
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Examples
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The term homophobic has no meaning any more than the terms butaphobic or vaginaphobic or anal obsession have meaning in these matters.
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Liberal candidate who sent what they describe as a homophobic email 12 years ago should resign from the race.
Intolerance Of The Seemingly Intolerant « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009
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A gay San Francisco man says he was punched outside a South of Market bar late last month in what he described as a homophobic attack.
unknown title 2009
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I actually think the term homophobic which implies an irrational fear of homosexuals is completely inappropriate and a creation of the victimhood crowd as a means to objectify and poor hate upon those whose moral beliefs are different from the pro homo crowd.
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So 'homophobic' is an inaccurate assessment of the perspective here.
Sound Politics: Vast Oddball Conspiracy Emanating From Issaquah 2006
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Randy R’s comments if serious, I’m not sure if he might not have been joking because they so obviously prove the point that the term homophobic has no set rationally and objectively determinable meaning in common usageshow that homophobic is merely a method of making an ad hominem attack upon someone without resorting to more commonly used school yard invective.
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Yeah, cuz those Teabaggers are spending all their time in homophobic froth and are not talking about anything else.
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School gay history lessons lead to fall in homophobic bullying
Society daily 26.10.2010 Patrick Butler 2010
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In retrospect, I let a certain homophobic and misogynist twidiot (thanks to niamh_sage for that fine neologism) get much farther under my skin than I ever should have.
"I'd rather be a forest than a street..." niamh_sage 2009
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How people can be so blatently homophobic is shameful.
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