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unwilling to grant other people social rights or to accept other viewpoints
most viewers were disgusted by the comments of the talk show's bigoted guest
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Recent Examples of bigoted
Many Democrats have abandoned hope in favor of cynicism: deciding that most of the voting public are selfish, bigoted enemies of democracy.
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Jamil Zaki, TIME, 23 Nov. 2024
Latino activists in Philadelphia and Allentown are mobilizing against Donald Trump after a comedian's bigoted joke about Puerto Rico at his Madison Square Garden rally, while the former president is playing damage control.
—Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 29 Oct. 2024
Vance has pushed the baseless, racist claim that Haitian immigrants are eating American pets, as well as bigoted, undemocratic ideas about people without children.
—Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
But as civility gets ground down to a nub by increasingly racist and bigoted behavior, from Trump down, there have to be consequences for actions.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 29 Oct. 2024
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Jamil Zaki, TIME, 23 Nov. 2024
Latino activists in Philadelphia and Allentown are mobilizing against Donald Trump after a comedian's bigoted joke about Puerto Rico at his Madison Square Garden rally, while the former president is playing damage control.
—Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 29 Oct. 2024
Vance has pushed the baseless, racist claim that Haitian immigrants are eating American pets, as well as bigoted, undemocratic ideas about people without children.
—Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
But as civility gets ground down to a nub by increasingly racist and bigoted behavior, from Trump down, there have to be consequences for actions.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 29 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bigoted
Adjective
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The large table serves as the primary crafting area; the narrow wood desk is her workstation.—
Ella Field,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 Jan. 2025
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Think narrow sections with extra weight in the middle to give you more control for day-to-day styling at home.—
Fiona Embleton,
Glamour,
25 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Columbus Today Columbus is no longer the parochial, third-tier Midwestern city big dreamers must leave in order to fulfil their potential.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes,
6 Jan. 2025
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But parochial political feuds and byzantine zoning codes have hampered LA’s efforts to get more new housing off the ground.—
Carly Stern,
Vox,
6 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The provincial and constitutional courts ruled against them.—
Stephanie Yang,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other government ministers met with provincial premiers to discuss Trump's pledge to impose steep tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports after he is sworn in as president in January.—
Nia Williams and Ismail Shakil,
USA TODAY,
14 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The paradox of intolerance says the one thing to be intolerant of is intolerance itself.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Jan. 2025
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Inspector Generals' offices must be staffed by people who are constitutionally intolerant of injustice.—
Lucy Lang,
Newsweek,
9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The sudden shift flummoxed the music industry, which had inherited a profoundly prejudiced business structure from the totalizing predation of Jim Crow.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
2 Jan. 2025
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Advertisement Olivet President Jonathan Park and Vice President Walker Tzeng said that the probe was racially and religiously prejudiced and was prompted by news reports from Newsweek, which university leaders claimed to be inaccurate.—
Colleen Shalby,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Pernicious racial politics and illiberal impulses of tribalism have poisoned American society for so long that a decisive repudiation from top down is required.—
Wenyuan Wu,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Jan. 2025
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In recent years, candidates running for office in France, Germany, and Spain have successfully used the rhetoric of protecting democracy to push back against illiberal or antidemocratic political movements.—
Omar G. Encarnación,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Some people associate a frugal spender with a narrow-minded person who is a tightwad, a cheapskate, a penny-pincher, and worse of all an outright scrooge.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
18 Jan. 2025
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People are going to take things and run with them and be narrow-minded or whatever or take something out of context.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
19 Dec. 2024
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