English Explanatory Dictionary

conservative correctness

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A manner of action and rhetoric that is inoffensive to rightists.

Word forms

conservative correctness

Etymology

Coined by John Wilson, author of The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education (1995), as a response to political correctness.

Synonyms

patriotic correctness
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