politically correcting

Verb

politically correct (third-person singular simple present politically corrects, present participle politically correcting, simple past and past participle politically corrected)

1. (transitive) To modify in a way that is considered more respectful to minorities.
   • There is nothing new or progressive in the politically corrected vocabularies that now amuse the prejudiced.1998, Humphrey McQueen, Temper Democratic: How Exceptional is Australia?, Wakefield Press, →ISBN, page 190
2. (transitive) To modify in a way that conforms more to the official position of a government or political party.
   • Even a senior Chinese scholar-official who had been politically correcting my arguments and opinions throughout the conference smiled and accepted that the academic standards to which we both had to comply were quite different—I would be ridiculed by my own colleagues were I to adopt the standards...2013, Andrew Martin Fischer, “Preface”, in The Disempowered Development of Tibet in China, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page xxxiv

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