Appropriated

Word APPROPRIATED
Character 12
Hyphenation appropriated
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Definitions and meanings of "Appropriated"

What do we mean by appropriated?

To make suitable; to suit.

To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.

To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.

To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).

Something that's suitible for children and adults containing no swearing, nudity, gore etc. Urban Dictionary

To use without someone’s permission, often in a disrespectful way. Urban Dictionary

A certain way people want things to be done without thinking about it or it necessarily making any sense. Used when there are no firm standards and/or valid justification for restrictions, but people just making rules because of traditions of themselves or others. Urban Dictionary

HAWT...as in off the hook bodacious, utterly bootylicious. A frickin walking hardon. Like... oh my god, i think i wet myself, because that is so frickin hawt!!! Urban Dictionary

A way for people, normally white girls from LA, on twitter to take offense for another culture while people from the actual culture normally really don’t give a shit. Urban Dictionary

To say something that in context is appropriate, but can be taken easily out of context to be made inappropriate. Urban Dictionary

Something that both SJWs and far right white supremacists unanimously agree on. Urban Dictionary

When a different culture adopts cultural traditions of another culture. This's a very common process in diverse locations and open-minded people, in which multiple cultures accept and adopt others' traditions. This's rarely a bad thing - examples of when "cultural appropriation" is when the Nazis adopted the Swastika (卍) from Indian religions and therefore gave it a bad name. Barbaric philosophy of SJWs conclude that cultural appropriation is a grave sin. This SJW philosophy has very common traits with racial segregation, apartheid, racism, and likewise. Although SJWs believe that they're politically correct, this racist barbaric philosophy can easily be categorized under hate speech, discrimination, or racism, or in the support of thereof. Urban Dictionary

Cultural Appropriation is the act of believing that wearing an Asian inspired dress and putting a lampshade on your head while saying 'Ching chong willy wong' are as racist as each other. Urban Dictionary

The idiotic conflation of culture with racism. Essentially the absurd belief that the cultural exchange that has served to enrich humanity throughout all of human history is wrong because racists exist. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Appropriated

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The word "appropriated" in example sentences

The term appropriated by Gnostic heresiarchs to designate the series of spiritual powers evolved by progressive emanation from the eternal ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

"Anti-Chalcedonians" was the term appropriated by everyone in Asia who took sides against the ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

MILF seems to be a term appropriated from the pages of celebrity culture by teenage boys, men whose views of womanhood centre on one plastic image. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Mr. Giraud's adoption of the strange-sounding pseudonym, which he appropriated from the mathematical strip of the s ame name, marked an artistic renaissance which gathered pace in the mid-1970s and hasn't lagged since. ❋ Tobias Grey (2010)

Where he voiced a radical vision of a humanity founded on the dual principles of agape (love) and koinonia (communion), Left Behind theology seems to be more of a Save Your Behind theology, one in which Jesus is more of a shill, a name appropriated in hopes of gaining legitimacy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Would we have to reassess the history of Abstract Expressionism if we were to discover that this taxidermist was Robert Rauschenberg's lover and that the artist's found objects were not appropriated from the streets and trash heaps of New York City but were actually pilfered from the museum's workrooms during their nighttime trysts? ❋ Unknown (2008)

There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Correction the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year for beaver control measures at Tabor Correctional Institution in Tabor City. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The "days of April" (journees d'avril) is a name appropriated in French history to a series of insurrections at Lyons, Paris and elsewhere, against the government of Louis Philippe in 1834, which led to violent repressive measures, and to a famous trial known as the proces d'avril. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The money would come out of “$2.7 billion in appropriated funds for Katrina-related damage.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

Its motto is “wise use” (now, unfortunately, a phrase appropriated and perverted by the self-styled Wise Use Movement). ❋ Unknown (2008)

What if the cultural artefact is appropriated from a dominant culture by a member of another dominant culture? ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)

This affront is exacerbated by the fact that he was in Cabo which the rich Gringos and Mexicans have appropriated from the locals for their sybaritic pleasures while the Mexican laborers who work to support the infrastructure of their exclusionary compounds live in distant tarpaper shacks because the Mexican government has not seen fit to force developers to provide decent housing for workers. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Pavement'sbreakthrough-ishsingle, 1992's "Summer Babe," contained a melody appropriated from the English Beat which worked its subliminal 80's magic on the unconcerned listener. ❋ Unknown (1999)

The Act enables a total of R142,42 billion to be appropriated from the National Revenue Fund. ❋ Unknown (1996)

No Name was appropriated from a French Hypermarket. ❋ Unknown (1994)

"That [movie] better be [appropriate] for [Sarah] to watch." ❋ DogeAnswers (2016)

African American [identity] is sometimes appropriated by people who didn’t [earn] it with their [white privilege]. ❋ True_Lust (2019)

"It isn't appropriate to voice your objections." "All [students] [shall] [dress] appropriately." ❋ QuinnMallory (2013)

how "appropriate" is that [swim] [suit]? ❋ JS (2005)

Person: My lNative American [step-mother] used to hang [dream catchers] on our walls, but she passed away. Is it still appropriate for me to keep it? Ruby Richardson: Is she from the [Ojibwe] tribe? Have you studied the history of the Ojibwe people and the dream catcher? If not then it’s not meant for you and it’s cultural appropriation and I don’t care that it was a gift from your deceased stepmother. ❋ The Baconspiracy (2020)

[Susie] told me that I had a big package, and we know she wasn't talking about [the box] I was carrying; it was so [passive appropriate]! ❋ Julia Goulia (2019)

SJW: "Oh my god, that white person is making [a CURRY]?! That is [cultural appropriation] and so wrong!" White Supremacist: "I agree with you, white people need to stick to their own culture and shun anything created by black or [brown people]" ❋ Cicero1 (2020)

Cultural Appropriation is a very [common] [result] of [diversity]! ❋ Hi Im Your Average Teabag (2018)

Idiot 1: Yo I just cancelled someone for Cultural Appropriation. Idiot 2: Yo why. Idiot 1: They wore [a dress] with an Asian pattern. Idiot 2: Wow, [so inspirational]. You are [saving the world] from all this racism. ❋ General Clanker (2021)

[SJW]: OMG, look at that white girl with dreadlocks! That's [cultural appropriation]! Sane individual: [Eat a bag of dicks]. ❋ Gubless (2016)

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