How to Use homophobe in a Sentence

homophobe

noun
  • To be clear, not many people think Quinn Norton is a racist or a homophobe.
    Michael Harriot, The Root, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Though two of the three remain apt enough, Mr. Waldrop has bigger homophobes to fry in 2017.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2017
  • The same courts that have largely thwarted such efforts over time are the ones Donald Trump now seeks to pack with racists and homophobes.
    Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 13 Aug. 2017
  • Some people think that the people who voted for Trump are racists and sexists and homophobes and deplorable folks.
    Anne Branigin, The Root, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Thanks for giving the homophobes more ammo #KevinSpacey.
    Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Even the worst human among them — a vile racist (and homophobe) called Dougray — is allowed his back story, which helps explain, if in no way excuse, him.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
  • The artists behind the song, who all hail from Puerto Rico, call out Rosselló by name and describe him as a homophobe and a dictator.
    Rachel Yang, EW.com, 18 July 2019
  • Look - are there supporters of Trump who are racist, sexist homophobes?
    CBS News, 19 Feb. 2023
  • The man also brought up Sodom and Gomorrah, the Bible passage often cited by homophobes.
    Patti Greco, Cosmopolitan, 5 Nov. 2014
  • This is even more important for the public than rasist and homophobe scandal.
    Connie Wang, refinery29.com, 6 May 2018
  • The second verse is about homophobes and the people picketing outside our concerts.
    Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 8 Aug. 2019
  • There was nothing to be gained by trying to educate an ignorant homophobe who appears to have been trying to start a fight.
    Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Taylor Swift's latest song has a new target: homophobes.
    Mesfin Fekadu, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2019
  • Taylor Swift’s latest song has a new target: homophobes.
    Mesfin Fekadu, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2019
  • What about the fact that Margaret Court is a virulent and unapologetic homophobe?
    Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 5 June 2019
  • During their southbound trip, the duo meet dozens of new characters who, on any other television program, would be drawn as over-the-top characatures of homophobes and racists.
    Stephen Daw, Billboard, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Gay men’s classic sources of trauma and violence stem less from being hit on than from being literally hit by homophobes.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 19 June 2019
  • Trans people in turn accuse such women of transphobia, likening their concerns to those raised by homophobes in the 1980s and blaming them for an increase in reported hate crimes against trans people.
    The Economist, 4 July 2019
  • Bolsonaro, a former Army captain whose followers call him the Legend, is an unabashed racist, homophobe, and misogynist.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Granted with money, resources, and celebrity, these crusaders are addicts, murderers, racists, rapists, homophobes, and more.
    Maya Phillips, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2019
  • Wherever Benedict had traveled, he was hounded by protesters for being a reactionary, an abettor of child abuse, a homophobe, a Nazi.
    Joe Keohane, Esquire, 22 Oct. 2013
  • But honestly, this journey has shown me that, in reality, most people are not racists, homophobes, or misogynists.
    Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2019
  • He was labeled a racist, a misogynist, a homophobe, a fascist, an advocate of torture and an aspiring dictator.
    Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2018
  • He is labeled a homophobe by his critics, but in socially conservative Brazil his objections have been welcomed.
    Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2018
  • Were there conversations with her about your decision to play an unapologetic homophobe?
    Margy Rochlin, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Financial Times Twitter ads Twitter has apologized for letting advertisers target hate groups such as neo-Nazis and homophobes.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Over the past two weeks, Gen Z has set its sights on Eminem, the monolithic rapper who’s sold tens of millions of albums while infuriating countless critics who branded him a misogynist, homophobe and abuse apologist over the last quarter-century.
    Bryan Rolli, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Policy swings Critics denied Johnson as lazy, racist, misogynist, and a homophobe during his successful attempt to become London mayor in 2008.
    Phil Boucher, Fortune, 23 July 2019
  • Suddenly, the only people who saw utility in religious liberty were these Catholics and Evangelicals, who now seemed to their opponents as nothing other than misogynists and homophobes.
    Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 1 Nov. 2017
  • In one corner are universal rights to housing, health care, education, food, and safety; in the other are the ideologies espoused by Islamophobes, homophobes, anti-Semites, sexists, ethno-nationalists, white supremacists, and neo-Nazis.
    Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 8 July 2019

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