Unwoke
adj, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 To remove woke or socially progressive influence from (something); to make unwoke. informal, transitive
"It would of course be premature to declare that Swinney's policy reset amounts to the "unwoking" of the Scottish government."
- 1 Not having been woken. archaic, not-comparable, poetic
- 2 Not woke, especially in social justice contexts. Canada, US, colloquial, not-comparable
"Finally, there came his involvement with Markle. […] a woman of colour and a feminist whose presence in his life would soon require that he forcefully denounce racism and sexism in the British press (and, I trust, among his more un-woke friends and relations)."
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More examples"Finally, there came his involvement with Markle. […] a woman of colour and a feminist whose presence in his life would soon require that he forcefully denounce racism and sexism in the British press (and, I trust, among his more un-woke friends and relations)."
Etymology
From un- + woke.
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