microaggress
verbEtymology
From micro- + aggress, as a back-formation from microaggression.
- learned borrowing from aggressum
Definitions
To perform one or more acts of microaggression.
- Every chapter presents an integrated "way forward" section that provides practical steps that we ourselves can take in order to better understand and control our own tendency to microaggress.
- “I microaggress all the time. You microaggress all the time. Even people of colour microaggress all the time,” she said.
To perform one or more acts of microaggression directed at (someone).
- You are microaggressing me and it is not okay. Period. End of story.
- People who are minorities because of physical characteristics such as gender, skin color or age are more often subjected to microaggressions, but most of us have been microaggressed at some point.
- However, the privileged kids studying oppression for the first time who derail the class for a half hour every session may leave the more marginalized folks in the room feeling unfulfilled, if not constantly microaggressed.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for microaggress. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA