homophobe

noun

ho·​mo·​phobe ˈhō-mə-ˌfōb How to pronounce homophobe (audio)
: a person characterized by homophobia

Examples of homophobe in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Someone has to stand up for LGBTQ rights against homophobes and the like. Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 22 June 2024 Gustavo Arellano: How a homophobe repented and became an imperfect LGBTQ+ ally. Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2024 Religious Zionism supporters regularly express anti-Arab views, and among their legislators are a number of overt homophobes. Dahlia Scheindlin, Foreign Affairs, 11 Nov. 2022 The deepening friendship between these two young women, one of whom is alive, is very much coded as romantic, though not enough to ruffle the feathers of homophobes or, perhaps more pertinently in the eyes of the movie’s corporate parents, forbid it from being shown in China. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for homophobe 

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Word History

First Known Use

1964, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of homophobe was in 1964

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“Homophobe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/homophobe. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.

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