tokenistically
tokenistically adverb: in a tokenistic way, in a manner that exhibits tokenism.
Adverb
tokenistically (comparative more tokenistically, superlative most tokenistically)
- 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
| comparative | more tokenistically |
|---|---|
| superlative | most 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.
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