How to Use bigotry in a Sentence

bigotry

noun
  • A deeply ingrained bigotry prevented them from even considering the counterarguments.
  • Join me in rejecting bigotry and standing up with our friends & neighbors.
    NBC News, 26 Mar. 2021
  • In others, it is accompanied by the same type of bigotry these schools condemn.
    Wencong Fa, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Take a stand against bigotry and encourage your organizations to do the same.
    David Z. Morris, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2021
  • As the pandemic dragged on, such casual slurs have morphed into next-level bigotry.
    Kristie Lu Stout, CNN, 18 Mar. 2021
  • As a society, each of us has a moral responsibility to take action against bias and bigotry.
    Derald Wing Sue, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Six of the dead are women of Asian descent, yet the shooter told police he wasn’t motivated by racial bigotry.
    Tracy Quan, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
  • People of Asian descent have been living in the United States for more than 160 years, and have long been the target of bigotry.
    Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Pro-democracy advocates all over the world watched with disappointment and alarm as Trump took the former course, plumbing the depths of bigotry and fear, and vowing to take vengeance.
    Larry Diamond, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2024
  • There's a reason why so many stars stay silent in the face of bigotry.
    Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
  • And there’s been an increase in overt bigotry here of late.
    Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The battle against this type of bigotry is fought, in part, on this level.
    Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 5 May 2021
  • Foxx’s salty reading of Bunker-style bigotry struck a chord, and the show had a healthy six-season run.
    Chris Morris, Variety, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The family achieved success in the face of bigotry, Noel said.
    Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Through their essays, the students stand up and speak out against bias and bigotry.
    Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 30 Apr. 2021
  • If more of us would look for the common good for all of us, hate and bigotry would diminish.
    Peter Georgescu, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • There’s the coldness of bigotry and the heartbreak of alienation and confusion — and the warmth of love and support.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2021
  • As a Black man in America, there is no room for bigotry or hate speech.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 28 Nov. 2022
  • No one group or faith owns a monopoly on the oldest form of bigotry.
    Micha Danzig, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2021
  • To avoid reckoning with bigotry in beloved books is the coward's way out.
    David M. Perry, CNN, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Once the full extent of his bigotry is laid bare, the play doesn't seem to know where to go, said Arifa Akbar in The Guardian.
    The Week Uk, theweek, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Despite the title, the bigotry wasn’t aimed at any one nation, but instead to Asians as a whole.
    Tribune News Service, cleveland, 4 Sep. 2021
  • This is how polite people used to think about and talk through bigotry against Jews and all Others.
    Armond White, National Review, 28 June 2023
  • She was called racial slurs and faced hateful bigotry from her classmates.
    Leah Campano, Seventeen, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Race is one of the core things utilized by bad actors to fuel hatred and bigotry.
    Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The textbooks taught in our schools are full of hate, such as bigotry toward the Baha’i faith and the promotion of terrorism.
    Hossein Ronaghi, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Growing sick and tired — as my mom and grandmom would say — of the bulls--- and giving false equivalence to the bigotry, lies and hatred.
    Washington Post, 15 June 2021
  • Jackson has not been charged with a hate crime, but Solis believes his killing stemmed from bigotry.
    Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 13 July 2023
  • The paper issued a correction about the factual errors, but not the root of the issue: the bigotry.
    Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2021
  • Musk has also faced widespread criticism from civil rights groups for the amplification of bigotry on the platform.
    Hugh Son, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2024

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