oversexualize en · VERB
Etymology
From over- + sexualize.
Meanings
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(transitive) To sexualize excessively.
The latest iteration of Unilever’s “Real Beauty” advertising campaign for Dove products, which celebrates women of all shapes and sizes, urges girls to reject the underfed and oversexualized images of women that dominate advertising.
2007 October 15, Andrew Adam Newman, “Unilever Shuns Stereotypes of Women (Unless Talking to Men)”, in New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| oversexualized | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| oversexualized | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| oversexualizes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| oversexualizing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |