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tokenistically

tokenistically adverb: in a tokenistic way, in a manner that exhibits tokenism.

Adverb

tokenistically (comparative more tokenistically, superlative most tokenistically)

  1. In a tokenistic way, in a manner that exhibits tokenism.
    • More often than not, indigenous women of the Americas are either ignored or tokenistically offered a sentence or two.1974, Anna Nieto-Gómez, “La Femenista,” cited in Alfredo Mirandé and Evangelina Enríquez, La Chicana: The Mexican-American Woman, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981, Chapter 5, p. 140
    • […] within metropolitan democratic societies like Britain, peripheral groups, however defined, seldom have access to significant institutions in a manner sufficient to bring about a reallocation of power and resources. Such groups consequently remain unrepresented, under represented or...1992, Jagdish Gundara, Crispin Jones, “Nation States, Diversity and Interculturalism: Issues for British Education”, in Kogila A. Moodley, editor, Beyond Multicultural Education: International...

Forms of tokenistically

comparativemore tokenistically
superlativemost tokenistically

Origin of tokenistically

From tokenistic + -ally.

Questions about tokenistically

What does tokenistically mean?
Tokenistically means in a tokenistic way, in a manner that exhibits tokenism.
What part of speech is tokenistically?
Tokenistically is an adverb.

Words near tokenistically in the dictionary

  1. tokenising
  2. tokenism
  3. tokenisms
  4. tokenist
  5. tokenistic
  6. tokenistically
  7. tokenizable
  8. tokenization
  9. tokenizations
  10. tokenize
  11. tokenized

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