fat-shame

verb

fat-shamed; fat-shaming; fat-shames

transitive verb

: to subject (someone) to fat-shaming
The author, a doctoral student therapist, discusses her experience with a clinical supervisor who fat-shamed a client during supervision.Melissa A. Meulman

Examples of fat-shame in a Sentence

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Later, Reacher fat-shames him with a crack about doughnuts. Chris Klimek, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025 Totally fat-shamed me in front of the rest of the people in the room. Lori A Bashian Fox News, Fox News, 15 Jan. 2025 Baldoni has alleged that things got heated, and that Reynolds accused him of fat-shaming his wife (Lively had her fourth child, a son, in early 2023, just before the shoot began). Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 Musk himself has waged a constant battle with the scale, having been fat-shamed by his very own father before opting to take Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy to help slim down chemically. Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for fat-shame

Word History

First Known Use

2009, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of fat-shame was in 2009

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“Fat-shame.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fat-shame. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.

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