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stunning and brave

stunning and brave adjective: used to express disrespect, in particular to suggest someone (especially a transgender person) or something has been promoted as good but is actually bad.

Adjective

stunning and brave (comparative more stunning and brave, superlative most stunning and brave)

  1. (Internet, derogatory, sarcastic) Used to express disrespect, in particular to suggest someone (especially a transgender person) or something has been promoted as good but is actually bad.
    • Take the case of [...] a fifty-two-year-old transgender woman who raped two women before being sent to jail […] Stunning and brave!2020 July 21, Rob Smith, Always a Soldier: Service, Sacrifice, and Coming Out as America’s Favorite Black, Gay Republican, Post Hill Press, →ISBN
    • Live your truth. Be like one of these stunning and brave heroes of oppression: HEROES. OF. OPPRESSION. Your heart will bleed for each of these brave lads and lasses—not to mention lxsses—who suffer at the hands of the patriarchy.2021 November 2, Babylon Bee, The Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 13
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stunning, brave.

Forms of stunning and brave

comparativemore stunning and brave
superlativemost stunning and brave

Origin of stunning and brave

From "Stunning and Brave", an episode of South Park that satirizes social justice activists and political correctness.

Questions about stunning and brave

What does stunning and brave mean?
Stunning and brave means used to express disrespect, in particular to suggest someone (especially a transgender person) or something has been promoted as good but is actually bad.
What part of speech is stunning and brave?
Stunning and brave is an adjective.

Words near stunning and brave in the dictionary

  1. stunnas
  2. stunned
  3. stunner
  4. stunners
  5. stunning
  6. stunning and brave
  7. stunningly
  8. stunningness
  9. stunnings
  10. stunod
  11. stunods

Source and license

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