What is another word for midgets?

Pronunciation: [mˈɪd͡ʒɪts] (IPA)

The word "midgets" is considered offensive by many people in the dwarfism community. As such, it is important to use more respectful and inclusive language. Synonyms for "midgets" include "little people," "dwarfs," "people of short stature," and "vertically challenged individuals." These terms are preferred as they do not use a term that has historically been used to marginalize and stigmatize people with dwarfism. It is crucial that we all strive to use language that is respectful to all members of our society and avoids perpetuating harmful stereotypes and prejudices.

What are the paraphrases for Midgets?

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What are the hypernyms for Midgets?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    dwarves, little people, small people, People of restricted growth, People with dwarfism, Persons of reduced stature, Persons of short stature.

Usage examples for Midgets

With all papers necessary to prove his identity and his dearly-loved journals and charts on board, Flinders bade farewell to his trusty friend King, and on September 21st, 1803, the three vessels, the lumbering Rolla and the two midgets of schooners, put to sea.
"The Naval Pioneers of Australia"
Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery
Mr. Sparling pushed his way through the crowd, roaring out command after command, but somehow, the ring about the Fat Woman and the fighting midgets did not give way readily.
"The-Circus-Boys-Across-the-Continent-or-Winning-New-Laurels-on-the-Tanbark"
Darlington, Edgar B. P.
The show people were too much engrossed in the funny spectacle of the midgets to wish to be disturbed.
"The-Circus-Boys-Across-the-Continent-or-Winning-New-Laurels-on-the-Tanbark"
Darlington, Edgar B. P.

Famous quotes with Midgets

  • My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.
    A. J. Foyt
  • George Bush hates midgets.
    Chris Rock
  • I watch Fox news for the comedy, MSNBC when I need to be reminded that mind midgets exist and CNN when I want to check out the latest in media lies and special interest propaganda. On the other 364 days of the year I read the American transcendentalists, David Hume, Rene Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Niccolo Machiavelli and Diogenes of Sinope.
    James Scott
  • How come there's no parking for midgets? You ever notice that? Not one spot in the fucking mall for midgets. Unbelievable. You want to know why? 'Cause there's no telethon for midgets. Nobody gives a fuck. The kind of humidity you get in Manhattan during the summer... by the time you even get to the front doors of the mall, they're passing out. You've got to piss on them to revive them. And I love midgets with those pumpkin heads, little bug legs. I never fucked one, I'll admit that. But I would do it. They're people. So they're a little light, all right. So, so you stick 'em on your dick, you can shave, shower, they don't get in the way. You throw 'em in a drawer when you're done. "Yeah, use my socks as a pillow honey." "Wait, a mouse went under the table, get the fucker." Could you imagine being a maitre d at a fancy restaurant and a couple midgets come in for dinner? What do you say? “Table for, ugh, I don't know, fuck, three quarters?" midgets, man. What do they do when a midget is missing? Put 'em on the back of a container of Half & Half?"
    Andrew Dice Clay
  • As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds to the opinion that she was a great natural comic identifies himself immediately as a dunce...As a natural silent comedian Marilyn might possibly have qualified, with the proviso that she was not to be depended on to invent anything. But as a natural comedian in sound she had the conclusive disadvantage of not being able to speak. She was limited ineluctably to characters who rented language but could not possess it, and all her best roles fell into that category. She was good at being inarticulately abstracted for the same reason that midgets are good at being short.
    Clive James

Related words: used midgets, little people, midget clowns, midget racing, midget basketball

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