English Dictionary

politically correct

verb

(transitive) To modify in a way that is more respectful to minorities. / (transitive) To modify in a way that conforms more to the official position of a government or political party.

It is important to politically correct our language to avoid offending others.

意味（1）

(transitive) To modify in a way that is more respectful to minorities.

There is nothing new or progressive in the politically corrected vocabularies that now amuse the prejudiced.

意味（2）

(transitive) To modify in a way that conforms more to the official position of a government or political party.

Even a senior Chinese scholar-official who had been politically correcting my arguments and opinions throughout the conference smiled and accepted that the academic standards to which we both had to comply were quite different—I would be ridiculed by my own colleagues were I to adopt the standards of China, which he nonetheless deemed the (officially sanctioned) correct ones.