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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • The fake Picassos were moved from the lounge to a ladies’ toilet cubicle in the museum after a court ruled that the exhibition was discriminatory and must admit men.
    George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 10 July 2024
  • But homes in many of these lower-cost areas started out cheaper, at least in part, because of the legacy of discriminatory practices in home buying and lending, experts say.
    Zachary Hansen, ajc, 9 Feb. 2023
  • More than a million Black veterans were denied the chance to buy a home because of a discriminatory real estate practice known as redlining.
    Jamie Gold, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Every policy Ra’am pushed forward faced a steep fight from the coalition’s right-wing members, and the party was forced to vote for laws seen as discriminatory toward Palestinians, to keep the bloc from falling apart.
    Dov Lieber and Aaron Boxerman, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Understandably, people are pissed that the World Cup is being held on such discriminatory soil.
    Raven Smith, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2022
  • But implicit-bias training might have no impact and might even worsen discriminatory care, the report found.
    Ronnie Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • For many of these women, the reception back home felt equally discriminatory.
    Hope Hodge Seck, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Today, however, acting justice Stephen Marshall of the supreme court overturned the tribunal’s order, ruling that the Ladies Lounge was not discriminatory.
    Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The Fourth Circuit had found that the method was not racially discriminatory against Asian Americans because they were still overrepresented relative to their share of the applicant pool.
    Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2024

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