On cat forums and Twitter, the cat-toothbrushing-phobic joke about losing their fingers. Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 23 Aug. 2022 The show has been criticized as racist, classist, sexist, heteronormative, fat-phobic, ecologically disastrous and emotionally manipulative. Meredith Blakestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2022 While not on this list, anything that is racist, sexist, homophobic, harmful, hateful, deragatory, fat-phobic, or offensive to any person or group of people has NO place anywhere. Shauna Harrison, SELF, 14 June 2022 Inflation-phobic Germany just hit 7.3 percent annually. Douglas Carr, National Review, 27 Apr. 2022 Even among those who support the American-phobic and anti-Ukrainian propaganda myths, there are bitter disputes. Stanislav Kucher, CNN, 12 Apr. 2022 So does this mean spoiler-phobic viewers will have to start getting up early on Fridays, instead of Wednesdays? Devan Coggan, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2022 Stuck between an oil-phobic progressive movement and a supermajority of American car-lovers, Biden has vacillated without relief. Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 9 Mar. 2022 Perhaps Saturday authorized even the most snow-phobic to believe that memories of Jan. 28 may now be dismissed.Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Adjective combining form
French -phobique, from Late Latin -phobicus, from Greek -phobikos, from -phobia