as in narrow
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
Despite this ostensible colonization of trans bodies, Céspedes trains his camera on the inherent humanity of all his subjects, including his most bigoted aggressors.
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Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 15 May 2025
Attempting to smear the DNI as being in a cult is bigoted behavior.
—Tim Marchman, Wired News, 6 May 2025
Best-actress Oscar nominee Karla Sofía Gascón, whose awards campaign for Emilia Pérez was thrown into disarray last week by the revelation of years-old tweets widely seen as expressing bigoted views, addressed the controversy in a tearful, hourlong interview with CNN en Español on Saturday evening.
—Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Feb. 2025
According to Adams, who saw his famed cartoon cut from numerous outlets following bigoted remarks be made in 2023, the prostate cancer that has metastasized to his bones will kill him within a matter of months.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 19 May 2025
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Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 15 May 2025
Attempting to smear the DNI as being in a cult is bigoted behavior.
—Tim Marchman, Wired News, 6 May 2025
Best-actress Oscar nominee Karla Sofía Gascón, whose awards campaign for Emilia Pérez was thrown into disarray last week by the revelation of years-old tweets widely seen as expressing bigoted views, addressed the controversy in a tearful, hourlong interview with CNN en Español on Saturday evening.
—Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Feb. 2025
According to Adams, who saw his famed cartoon cut from numerous outlets following bigoted remarks be made in 2023, the prostate cancer that has metastasized to his bones will kill him within a matter of months.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 19 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bigoted
Adjective
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In more challenging games, however, the side often flatters to deceive and occasionally slips up, as a narrow 2-1 victory over Boca Juniors and 0-1 loss to Benfica showed.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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Nothing dramatizes the human comedy with more precision than the sound of a happily narrow mind retorting to the wider environment.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
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In his quest for a definitive biography of Joyce as a cosmopolitan artist, above the parochial fray, Ellmann downplayed Joyce’s interest in politics.—
Eric Bulson,
The Atlantic,
16 June 2025
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Rather, Colbert won after knocking, by his count, on 20,000 doors, wearing out several pairs of size 15 shoes and putting parochial concerns, such as wildfire prevention, disaster preparedness and flood control, at the center of his campaign.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
Adjective
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The Inuit community wants to work with scientists to set up a provincial park that would protect the land while allowing researchers to study it.—
Adithi Ramakrishnan,
Los Angeles Times,
27 June 2025
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Its funders include private companies and four layers of government (provincial, regional, national, and European).—
Christine Ro,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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Many of the asylum-seekers are Christians who fled Iran and its intolerant views toward non-Muslim religions.—
Alicia Victoria Lozano,
NBC news,
26 June 2025
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Plants are intolerant of dry summer soil, making summer a stressful time for planting.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
20 June 2025
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Survey after survey shows that those who engage in remembrance are less likely to hold prejudiced views toward Jews and other groups, Mr. Walter says.—
Mark Sappenfield,
Christian Science Monitor,
2 May 2025
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BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, is back in business in Texas after the state removed it from a blacklist of financial firms that Republican officials deemed to be prejudiced against the oil and gas industry.—
Tim McDonnell,
semafor.com,
5 June 2025
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The question of whether India will be an illiberal great power thus remains open.—
ASHLEY J. TELLIS,
Foreign Affairs,
17 June 2025
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At least since 2012, Putin has sought to build and enforce a dominant ideology built on illiberal values and historical revisionism.—
ANDREI YAKOVLEV,
Foreign Affairs,
16 May 2025
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That is something that has always struck me as strange and narrow-minded.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 June 2025
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The inherent orthodoxy of his premise excluded all other alternatives to narrow-minded rationalism and its ethical constraints.—
Jonathon Keats,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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“Bigoted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bigoted. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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