How to Use politically correct in a Sentence

politically correct

adjective

• He later realized that his response was not politically correct.
• Now is not the time to be politically correct or afraid to take a stand.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2021
• Not out of a need to be politically correct but in an attempt to hire the right person, and not just the right man for the job.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2019
• In the days leading to the game, all parties toed the politically correct line.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2022
• Just go ahead and ditch the politically correct naming and call the Bibs the culinary ghetto.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Oct. 2021
• Maybe that was the politically correct response needed from a team leader who will be in the locker room and in the trenches with the unit.
  — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2020
• The conference hall was packed, with a crowd of more than 1,000 cheering attacks on the press, the liberals and the politically correct.
  — New York Times, 11 Nov. 2021
• Here’s why: This book has some non-politically correct aspects to it.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 5 July 2022
• Others will simply say that the politically correct left just found something else to whine about.
  — Christopher Harress, AL.com, 23 Sep. 2017
• The movement has taken on a more politically correct moniker since then for many reasons.
  — Danielle Prescod, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Nov. 2022
• In newspapers at the time, Slick was politically correct, never outing his board as the reason the Pacers passed on Bird.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, USA TODAY, 22 June 2022
• My mood isn’t helped by the armies of self-indulgent, politically correct, self-conscious weirdos that populate the awards stage.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 30 Mar. 2022
• Both will now be constrained by politically correct modes of thought.
  — Joel Zinberg, National Review, 9 June 2021
• It’s one thing to expect this from the [politically correct] police, but not from President Trump.
  — Cami Mondeaux, Washington Examiner, 21 Jan. 2023
• Look, academe has always had a soft spot for politically correct celebrity hires.
  — Tracey Schirra, National Review, 20 July 2021
• Hill has the right to do the critical work of shaping a new kind of narrative that stretches beyond the politically correct niceties of sports journalism.
  — Denene Millner, Glamour, 14 Sep. 2017
• It's considered politically correct at times to talk about good versus evil and clearly there is evil.
  — Fox News, 19 May 2018
• There’s a lot of money at stake, so athletes can feel pressure to be politically correct, afraid to use their influence to stand for people who can’t stand for themselves.
  — Greg Moore, azcentral, 20 Mar. 2020
• The makers of Fiddler’s Journey don’t go against the politically correct shibboleths but work around them.
  — Armond White, National Review, 13 May 2022
• Instead, the school board chose the easy route and sided with the popular politically correct position.
  — Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 11 July 2019
• By speaking the truth of what so many Americans have been conditioned to believe — that America must be great at any cost — Trump has relieved them of the need to be politically correct.
  — Prince Shakur, Teen Vogue, 19 Jan. 2018
• The authors note this, and suggest that the 'missing' 7 people might have denied feeling anything in an effort to be politically correct.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2013
• We aren't socialized for bold behavior — we are socialized to being politically correct, to not rocking the boat and to get people to like us.
  — Andy Gole, Forbes, 7 May 2021
• Jennifer Aniston knows not all of Gen Z sees her breakout '90s show Friends as politically correct…and has feelings about the series and the evolving landscape of comedy.
  — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 30 Mar. 2023
• There’ll be people who’ll be disappointed with our answer, but our goal wasn’t to find the politically correct answer.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 3 June 2020
• Some change their doctrines to be more modern or politically correct.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 18 Apr. 2018
• It’s all part of a long, complex process, in which long-overdue inclusion can cause backlash from those who see it as politically correct over-inclusion.
  — al, 26 Feb. 2021
• This is akin to members of Congress sporting fake kente-cloth shawls and taking a knee in a foul moment of fake reverence for ex-con George Floyd, in an act of politically correct prostration.
  — Armond White, National Review, 19 Aug. 2022
• Now some may balk at my mineral fertilizer recommendation rather than the more politically correct and rather slow-release compost or compost tea nutrition regime.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 19 July 2024
• This problem was revealed in a recent Hollywood Reporter article complaining that Twisters wasn’t politically correct enough.
  — Armond White, National Review, 24 July 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024