He's always mansplaining.
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Mansplaining
//manˈspleɪnɪŋ//
Synonyms for "mansplaining" (1 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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10 translations across 9 languages.
Basque
1 entries- arzalpen noun (Translations)
Finnish
1 entries- miesselitys noun (Translations)
French
2 entries- mansplaining noun (Translations)
- mecsplication noun (Translations)
German
1 entries- Herrklären noun (Translations)
Hebrew
1 entries- הַסְגַּבְרָה noun (Translations)
Italian
1 entries- minchiarimento noun (Translations)
Japanese
1 entries- マンスプレイニング noun (Translations)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- mansplaining noun (Translations)
Spanish
1 entries- machoexplicación noun (Translations)
Sample sentences
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Mansplaining isn't just the act of explaining while male, of course; many men manage to explain things every day without in the least insulting their listeners... Mansplaining is when a dude tells you, a woman, how to do something you already know how to do, or how you are wrong about something you are actually right about, or miscellaneous and inaccurate "facts" about something you know a hell of a lot more about than he does.
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It's hard to appreciate the full pathological depths of mansplaining unless you've read late-period Heinlein, an experience comparable to being trapped in an elevator for six hours with a boorish know-it-all offering his theories on economics, politics, sex, aesthetics, military strategy, investing and myriad other topics.
Source: wiktionary
“Cognitive therapy” is the fancy clinical term for what is otherwise known as “mansplaining.”
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