Definitions
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- adjective Pertaining to, or exhibiting, the prejudice of
heightism . - noun A person who believes in
heightism .
Etymologies
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Examples
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If people didn't make heightist comments, I don't think any shorter man would need to feel this way.
Leslie Goldman: Short, Dark and Handsome? Leslie Goldman 2011
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If people didn't make heightist comments, I don't think any shorter man would need to feel this way.
Leslie Goldman: Short, Dark and Handsome? Leslie Goldman 2011
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If people didn't make heightist comments, I don't think any shorter man would need to feel this way.
Leslie Goldman: Short, Dark and Handsome? Leslie Goldman 2011
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If people didn't make heightist comments, I don't think any shorter man would need to feel this way.
Leslie Goldman: Short, Dark and Handsome? Leslie Goldman 2011
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"I don't like it when people call me 'little girl', it makes me feel like they're heightist."
Katie's bon mot of the day eddvick 2010
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He really does look too ungainly to field in the ring and I'm the last person to be heightist.
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It's like saying that it's 'heightist' that there aren't any short Olympic high jumpers.
The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2010
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Not wanting to be cruel, sexist, ageist, heightist, spotlightist or goldist but Katie Lee leaving Billy Joel does not appear to me to be news.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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Not wanting to be cruel, sexist, ageist, heightist, spotlightist or goldist but Katie Lee leaving Billy Joel does not appear to me to be news.
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You can look at Sophie Dahl and Jamie Cullum and say they've broken the mould, and it's heightist to say it looks odd, but, well - I think it looks odd.'
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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