bigot

noun

big·ot | \ ˈbi-gət

Essential Meaning of bigot

disapproving : a person who strongly and unfairly dislikes other people, ideas, etc. : a bigoted person especially : a person who hates or refuses to accept the members of a particular group (such as a racial or religious group) He was labeled a bigot after making some offensive comments.

Full Definition of bigot

: a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (such as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance

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Examples of bigot in a Sentence

"It's scandalous," he said, in the tones once used by Colonel Blimp, Britain's best-loved bigot, who adorned the pages of the Evening Standard throughout the 1930s. — Nicholas Fraser, Harper's, September 1996 A bigot is a hater, she said. A bigot hates Catholics. A bigot hates Jews. … It's no sin to be poor, she said. It is a sin to be a bigot. Don't ever be one of them. — Pete Hamill, A Drinking Life, 1994 One had always to be mindful, moreover, that being a black scholar did not exempt one from the humiliations and indignities that a society with more than its share of bigots can heap upon a black person, regardless of education … — John Hope Franklin, "John Hope Franklin: A Life of Learning," 1988, in Race and History, 1989 He was labeled a bigot after making some offensive comments. an incorrigible bigot who hasn't entertained a new thought in years

Recent Examples on the Web Apparently, the bigot’s handiwork was not fully excised. — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021 The play’s unknown author centers a subplot on a raving bigot named Swetnam, who is fond of traducing women. — Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2021 But that's what the GOP has embraced in Greene, a conspiracy theorist, liar and bigot who nonetheless continues to enjoy her party's support. — Jill Filipovic, CNN, 15 June 2021 But former Archbishop of York John Sentamu, who was born in Uganda, said those who saw Philip as a bigot were wide of the mark. — Jill Lawless, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2021 These faux-Texans who are racing to out-bigot one another are living in the past, clinging to an image of Texas from the mid-twentieth century rather than of the ethnically and economically diverse juggernaut the state has become. — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2021 Webb is not incriminated as a racist or bigot, but as a servant of bigots. — WSJ, 15 Mar. 2021 Racial tension flares up among an ex-cop, a bigot and a black entertainer who band together to rob a bank. — Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2021 Liberals reviled him as a hateful blowhard and a bigot. — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 19 Feb. 2021

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