bigotry
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7.0
- noun
- /ˈbɪɡətri/
- NSFW
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intolerancia
- Earth would be a fabulous place, were it not for the ignorance and bigotry.
- bigotry and prejudice
- religious bigotry
- racial bigotry
If this doesn't constitute bigotry, I don't know what does.
- If this doesn't constitute bigotry, I don't know what does.
- So, yeah, there's a bit of yeah, bigotry at the airports towards people that don't have children.
- But what what charter schools have done is they've challenged the pernicious bigotry that all children can't learn.
- We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides.
- That that sense of helplessness as a young boy, seeing family members experiencing that kind of bigotry.
- Number two, our stories are medieval, they're tribal, they're ethnocentric, they're racist, they're full of bigotry and prejudice.
- Like the version of Christianity that was on my mind was like all the bad things, the Crusades, the, the bigotry, all of those things.
- So you'll see, you know, racism and you'll see a lot of instances of corporate greed, bigotry, you know, transphobia, all that kind of stuff.
- The sort of bigotry that's that's kind of seeps in and out in a lot of that kind of content.
Examples
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Free us, O God, free us of bigotry and bitterness toward others.
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It's like you understand bigotry much more as you have those people that are the victims of it in your friend group.
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But the forces of religious bigotry will soon lose this battle, as they have so many others in recent centuries.
Academic text (2011) -
People who vote for it will vote for hate and bigotry, whether or not that is their intent.
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I stood up against racial bigotry.
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All that said, let me add, I oppose bigotry, whether against such immigrants or against anyone.
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And what we need to target is religious bigotry, religious prejudice.
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I will not cosign on to bigotry, especially in your name.
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Justice-seeking people will not stand by and let this bigotry go unchallenged.
Academic text (1997) -
We must confront and challenge bigotry whenever we encounter it in our communities.
Synonyms
535
3.5
Unfair treatment of people because of their race, age, or sex
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4.8
An unfair belief about a person or group formed without good reason
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4.6
Not willing to accept small annoyances or people with different views
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7.4
Not willing to accept opinions or ways that are different from your own
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6.5
Unwillingness to accept ideas or people different from your own
An attitude of not accepting different opinions or ways of life
Strong, unfair belief in an idea that ignores other views and shows hate toward people who disagree
Antonyms
How Intolerant
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bigotry comes from the earlier word bigot, which meant a person who was not willing to accept people with different beliefs. One popular idea says bigot began as an old insult meaning 'little god', and so bigotry today means unfair dislike or intolerance toward people who are different.