bigoted

adjective

big·​ot·​ed ˈbi-gə-təd 

: blindly devoted to some creed, opinion, or practice

… Mr. Harding himself was not a bigoted man on points of church doctrine …

—Anthony Trollope

especially : having or showing an attitude of hatred or intolerance toward the members of a particular group (such as a racial or ethnic group)

bigoted comments/opinions

… early reports of Haitian and poor black voters turned away from polls by bigoted cops.

—Franklin Foer

… the December press conference at which the famously bigoted and anti-Semitic minister, fresh from a "near-death" bout with prostate cancer, proclaimed himself a changed man.

—Neal Pollack

bigotedly adverb

Whether you are religious, or bigotedly irreligious, or neither, you will find it disturbing in the best possible sense …

—A. N. Wilson

Synonyms

• illiberal
• intolerant
• narrow
• narrow-minded
• prejudiced
• small-minded

Examples of bigoted in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Lincoln’s death elevated a bigoted Democrat from east Tennessee, Andrew Johnson, to the presidency -- and thereby changed the course of Reconstruction. —Brian Matthew Jordan, National Review, 14 Apr. 2024

Some of the boys in Francis’ apartment had troubling associations with that bigoted old movement. —Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024

Michael Culver, the veteran British actor who portrayed the doomed Captain Needa in The Empire Strikes Back and a bigoted police inspector in David Lean’s A Passage to India, has died. —Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2024

Prosecutors said their investigation revealed that Radford used bigoted slurs toward the victim prior to shooting him and are seeking a hate crime enhancement on the charge. —Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2024

Given the backdrop of the Gaza conflict, which has led to antisemitic and anti-Muslim hate crimes in the U.S., some worry about making an artist with a history of bigoted statements seem acceptable - even edgy and alluring. —August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024

Just look to the celebrity-gossip ecosystem, which is as robust as ever despite various reckonings—take Britney Spears’s saga—demonstrating it as immoral, bigoted, vapid, and fake. —Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2024

On Friday evening, Hamlin allegedly approached the victim on the subway and accosted him with bigoted statements, the statement said. —Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024

Critics have called Moms for Liberty positions bigoted, homophobic, and racist fear-mongering. —Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1660, in the meaning defined above