Colon was a sizeist, at least when it came to people smaller than himself.

The last month alone has seen the company accused of being sizeist, elitist and ableist.

But I have discovered that LA is a very sizeist place – although not where men are concerned.

It just seemed unkind and, well, sizeist.

Particularly here in sizeist Britain.

Examples of sizeist discrimination might include a person being fired from a job for being overweight or exceptionally short though their work was unaffected.

That's sexist, sizeist and stereotyping!

There will be many jokes about only slender buyers being interested, but at Bricks & Mortar we decline to be sizeist.

But to partisans of small dogs - an aggressive breed of human who defend their favorites against every slight, real and imagined - I am a "canine sizeist."

March: Organisers of the annual Rear of the Year respond to criticism that the award is sexist and sizeist by awarding Eric Pickles the prize.

As a general rule, sizeist attitudes imply that someone believes that his or her size is superior to that of other people and treat people of other sizes negatively.

Rugby's sizeist revolution was in full flow and with Cohen, at 6ft 2in, some eight inches taller than Williams, and at 16st 3lb, more than five stone heavier, there was only going to be one legend.

Sizeist attitudes can also take the form of expressions of physical disgust when confronted with people of differing sizes and can even manifest into specific phobias such as cacomorphobia (the fear of fat people), or a fear of tall or short people.

It was while working on Fat Friends, an ITV drama about a group of overweight losers struggling against the prejudices of a sizeist society, that he first teamed up with Ruth Jones, who would become his co-writer on Gavin and Stacey.

Michelle Pfeiffer as Velma Von Tussle, the manager of station WYZT and a racist and sizeist, former beauty queen Velma is interested in keeping her daughter Amber in the spotlight and The Corny Collins Show segregated.

San Jose State University sociologist Natalie Boero has attributed the trend to living in a "sexist and sizeist culture" and clinical psychologist Barbara Greenberg has dismissed the trend as a "pipe dream", adding "most women are not built that way to have that space between their thighs".