ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Tokenistically

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Tokenistically is an adverb meaning In a tokenistic way, in a manner that exhibits tokenism.

Meaning

In a tokenistic way, in a manner that exhibits tokenism.

Example Sentences

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, More often than not, indigenous women of the Americas are either ignored or tokenistically offered a sentence or two.
[…] 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 tokenistically represented in the dominant social institutions.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tribalistically, manneristically, stereotypically, counterstereotypically, totemistically, symbolistically.

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