eugenic
adjective
eu·gen·ic
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Definition of eugenic
1
: relating to or fitted for the production of good offspring
2
: of or relating to eugenics
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Other Words from eugenic
eugenically
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adverb
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adverb
Examples of eugenic in a Sentence
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Nor do conservatives acknowledge the eugenic mechanisms rampant within the criminal justice system. — Audrey Farley, Longreads, "We Still Don’t Know How to Navigate the Cultural Legacy of Eugenics," 20 June 2019 Catholics, a population that many Protestants wished would reproduce less, vocally opposed eugenic sterilization as being an unnatural interference with procreation. Buck v. Bell has never been overturned. — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, "How Fetal Personhood Emerged as the Next Stage of the Abortion Wars," 5 June 2019 An obsession with hierarchy does not make a person a totalitarian, just as a devotion to proto-eugenic thinking combined with a rigid religious morality does not make a person a Nazi. — Laurie Penny, Longreads, "Peterson’s Complaint," 12 July 2018 To better understand the nation’s most aggressive eugenic sterilization program, our research team tracked sterilization requests of over 20,000 people. — Smithsonian, "California Once Targeted Latinas for Forced Sterilization," 23 Mar. 2018 Under California’s eugenic law, first passed in 1909, anyone committed to a state institution could be sterilized. — Smithsonian, "California Once Targeted Latinas for Forced Sterilization," 23 Mar. 2018 As American society was transformed by the arrival of millions of Southern and Eastern Europeans, a new and authoritative racial science confidently consigned newcomers to the lower tiers of humanity, a eugenic menace to be contained and excluded. — Paul A. Kramer, Slate Magazine, "Not Who We Are," 3 Feb. 2017 Eugenic arguments underlay the rationale behind the Immigration Act of 1924, scholars note. — Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, "Meritocracy and the history of the science of biological differences," 26 Aug. 2017 Decades of eugenic practices. Sanctioned torture of people with intellectual disability. — Joel Michael Reynolds, Time, "Gene Editing Might Mean My Brother Would’ve Never Existed," 9 Aug. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'eugenic.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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