appropriative

Adjective

appropriative (comparative more appropriative, superlative most appropriative)

1. Taking or setting apart for oneself; appropriating; constituting appropriation.
   • Unburdened by defensiveness, Ravel is able to figure the exotic in ways that are genuinely open to the energies of the other as well as appropriative of them. Those emergies find their culminating expression in the “General Dance” celebrating the union of Daphnis and Chloe. By organizing its...1996, Lawrence Kramer, Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge, →ISBN, page 222
   • It seeks to not homogenize or be appropriative of women of color, but even given this commitment, it does “turn women of color into something that can be used to further her own ideas.” White feminists end up painting broad strokes about women of color and oppressed groups, because they fail to...2015, Nancy Arden McHugh, The Limits of Knowledge: Generating Pragmatist Feminist Cases, →ISBN

   Synonyms:

   appropriatory