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eugenicist

[ yoo-jen-uh-sist ]

noun

  1. a specialist in measures intended to produce a perceived improvement in the human species or a human population.
  2. an advocate of measures intended to produce a perceived improvement in the human species or a human population.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of eugenicist1

First recorded in 1905–10; eugenic + -ist
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Example Sentences

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His fixation on playing games with the bodies of vulnerable kids has a sadistic and eugenicist edge to it.

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It's an attitude that's inherently eugenicist, measuring people's value solely in terms of whether they can be utilized to make more money for the already-wealthy investor class.

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The eugenicist urge is not far from the surface, right down to the tendency to see people who die of preventable illness as weak links who needed to be "culled" anyway.

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“Elon Musk gave a self-described ‘racist’ and eugenicist access to a system that controls all financial payments from the U.S.

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They also brag about how much money they put into genetic testing and IVF treatments to get the "best" babies, which is not only overtly eugenicist but cuts against their claim that they want everyone to have more babies.

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