How to Use discriminatory in a Sentence

discriminatory

adjective

• The law prohibits discriminatory hiring practices.
• Democrats said that part of the bill would be discriminatory.
  — Jim Saunders, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2023
• The suit argued that the law was both discriminatory and vague.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2023
• The Supreme Court ruled that job transfers don't have to include a change in rank or pay to be deemed discriminatory.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2024
• The danger is not so much the act of overturning a city ordinance, as that could be a good thing in the case of a discriminatory law.
  — Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 10 Feb. 2024
• All of the parents said the treatment of their sons was unfair and discriminatory.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Aug. 2023
• What’s more, the Court said that, even if there were a discriminatory motive, the plaintiff should still lose if the same thing would have happened in its absence.
  — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Some locals spoke out against the campaign to the BBC, finding the campaign's target of British males discriminatory.
  — Kristine Parks, Fox News, 3 Apr. 2023
• By not taking the case, the Supreme Court let stand a ruling from an appeals court in Virginia that found the policy was discriminatory.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2023
• Money began to pour in from the big banks looking to fulfill their post-Floyd promises to make right decades of discriminatory practices.
  — Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
• Sherrill Farrell, one of the five plaintiffs in the suit against the Pentagon over discriminatory discharges.
  — Jessica Kegu, CBS News, 8 Aug. 2023
• TikTok has pushed back against the contention that its platform is used to spread discriminatory content.
  — Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 7 Dec. 2023
• The lawyers said Johnson reported the discriminatory conduct to Hoyle and her deputy, Duke Shepard.
  — oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2023
• Boxed in by discriminatory housing restrictions, people of color had few, if any, other places to live in the city.
  — Audra D. S. Burch Carlos Jaramillo, New York Times, 21 May 2024
• The Times reported that a second man had filed a complaint alleging that the show was discriminatory.
  — News Desk, Artforum, 26 June 2024
• Your landlord could decide to end it at any time — with proper notice — as long as his actions are not discriminatory.
  — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 14 May 2022
• Activists have spoken out against the bans as discriminatory and not rooted in science.
  — Robert Hart, Forbes, 21 June 2022
• When asked if outright ban is harmful to transgender athletes, McCarthy noted that the law is not meant to be discriminatory or an act of hate — merely a way to keep sports fields equal.
  — Cami Mondeaux, Washington Examiner, 20 Apr. 2023
• Calls to rid the hair salon space of those discriminatory practices have also led to changes in hairdressing regulations in the UK.
  — Sierra Leone Starks, Allure, 19 July 2022
• This is not the first time the district has been sued over allegations that its policy is discriminatory against Black students.
  — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2023
• In telling the story of an athlete who frankly deserved better, the author demonstrates both Thorpe’s persistence and courage, and the discriminatory policies that tried to keep him down.
  — Olive Fellows, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Aug. 2022
• At stake is the role that a provision of the law known as Section 2 will play in combating racially discriminatory maps going forward.
  — Tierney Sneed, CNN, 12 Feb. 2022
• The lawsuit brought by the parents argues that the law is discriminatory and violates their rights as parents, the Texas Tribune reported.
  — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 13 July 2023
• The next year, Airbnb was hit with a lawsuit accusing it of discriminatory housing practices.
  — Jennifer Korn, CNN, 13 Dec. 2022
• The judge found there were non-discriminatory explanations for the series of events that followed the incident at a prison Christmas party.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 13 Apr. 2022
• The laws, which lowriders describe as discriminatory, have long prevented them from parading their cars without the fear of being cited or towed.
  — Livia Albeck-Ripka, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• Students who think a policy is discriminatory can report it to staff at the school, district and central levels.
  — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 18 July 2024
• Black families across the Tri-State region and the country were facing the same discriminatory practices wherein they were charged more for less coverage.
  — Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 23 Oct. 2024
• Some of the women said their firings reinforced the court ruling that the fire department was engaging in discriminatory practices.
  — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2025
• In June, a former employee sued Neuralink and accused it of hosting a discriminatory and hostile work environment, claiming that they had not been given proper protective gear while working with the monkeys.
  — William Gavin, Quartz, 13 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Jan 2025