How to Use bigot in a Sentence

bigot

noun
  • He was labeled a bigot after making some offensive comments.
  • We’re told the old bigot fell down a well, but Berniece suspects that her brother must have pushed him.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Valid criticism will be brushed under the rug and critics will be lumped in with the bigots, their arguments ignored.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The video of what Barkley does next has gone viral and outraged the bigots.
    Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
  • For years, the Left has been denouncing the cops as bigots, all of them.
    Fox News, 21 Sep. 2018
  • In 2018, most of us are lucky enough not to work with outright bigots.
    Nick Levine, GQ, 14 June 2018
  • Start with the fact that Trump has always been a bigot and a sexist.
    Anchorage Daily News, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Blacks who the man had meant to shoot welcomed the bigot with outstretched arms.
    John Schmid, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 June 2018
  • But a bigot on this team — this team of all others — stuns the senses.
    Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Now, bigots are even more wrong and strong in their hatred.
    Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 26 May 2023
  • And Miller, who is Jewish, took issue with that and called her a bigot.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 23 Aug. 2023
  • It’s rarely practiced when the bigot thinks the targets of their words are watching.
    Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2021
  • And the bigots, like the cheerleaders, were just warming up.
    Howard Gensler, Philly.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Bob Huggins' moral code doesn't apply to him, a bigot and liar.
    Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023
  • The bigots and bullies, in other words, are getting away with it.
    Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2019
  • What's most shocking isn't that there are anti-gay and anti-trans bigots in the world.
    Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2024
  • And here, because the capital is in Nashville, the bigots can speak out more here.
    Daniel Scheffler, SPIN, 1 June 2023
  • The Ethicist: What to do when an older acquaintance turns out to be a bigot.
    Ian Prasad Philbrick, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2022
  • The group’s escape from Simonsville is the first heart-pounding flight from a bigot — or, in this case, a pack of bigots — on fast wheels.
    Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Well, what about the detail that the founder of Payne Motors is described as a bigot, a theme that echoes the real Henry Ford?
    Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 2 Jan. 2022
  • Allegedly, the woman called Kotesky a bigot and threatened to throw up on him.
    Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Jan. 2017
  • But, on the other hand, there were also those who were racists and bigots and everything else.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 4 May 2020
  • Now she has been labeled a transphobe, a bigot and worse.
    Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 23 Apr. 2022
  • He is embraced by bigots, who recognize him as one of their own.
    Leonard Pitts, Alaska Dispatch News, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Commentary: How the aesthetics of drag drive the bigots mad.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Such a religious bigot should not be giving the prayer that opens the United States Embassy in Jerusalem.
    Margaret Hartmann, Daily Intelligencer, 14 May 2018
  • The piece culminated with a call to show indifference to the lives of bigots.
    Michael Harriot, The Root, 22 June 2017
  • Still, the war may as well have been yesterday for all of the old bigot’s antics and the vinegary asides by his Black employees.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The condemned man shot a bigot in self-defense, but murder is murder.
    Colin Marshall, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Stroman is not going to back down from a fight, especially to a bigot and racist.
    Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2022

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