Meaning of wokescold | Babel Free

Definitions

A person who criticizes or shames others for being insufficiently woke, or not supporting social justice causes.

derogatory, informal, neologism

Examples

“Wokescolds are the new representatives of moral panic.”

“Like Pope Urban VII, the self-righteous wokescolds seek to impose their questionable views and shifty standards on the rest of society by silencing dissenters with labels.”

“When it was announced that David Mamet's American Buffalo was returning to Broadway, cranky theater wokescolds protested.”

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