rupophobic

Definitions

Suffering from rupophobia; having an irrational fear of dirt and rubbish.

Examples

“His letters home from the voyage describe⟳ none of the eccentric passengers he would later evoke in his memoire, Going Solo: the nudist athletes Major Griffiths and his wife, for example, or the rupophobic Miss⟳ Trefusis.”

“We are so influenced by media-driven campaigns for absolute cleanliness that we risk⟳ becoming rupophobic, afraid to get⟳ anything soiled, to show⟳ dirt, to reveal⟳ those bad things inside of us, but also to be contaminated from contact⟳ from others, with people who are different from us.”

“It all communicates that we're rupophobic.”

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