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noun big·ot \ ˈbi-gət \

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 of bigot from the Web

One of them, Mayweather, is a serial abuser of women and the other, McGregor, is a bigot.

— mike bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, "Mayweather vs. McGregor: Domestic abuser vs. borderline racist," 25 Aug. 2017
Bigots join the Klan, kill black people, and redline black neighborhoods.

— jason johnson, The Root, "The President of the United States Is a Terrorist Sympathizer. Now What?," 18 Aug. 2017
But unlike the bigots of today, Jefferson evolved to believe that slavery was a moral injustice that would one day destroy the nation.

— joshua adams, Longreads, "What Thomas Jefferson Taught Me About Charlottesville and America," 17 Aug. 2017
Bunker was a loud-mouthed bigot who, despite fiery rhetoric, was still a memorable and beloved TV character, and has often been compared to Trump and the president’s loudest supporters.

— yohana desta, vanityfair.com, "Norman Lear Refuses to be Honored by Donald Trump," 4 Aug. 2017
Instead, while the population’s views are becoming more and more progressive, our governments are pandering to a handful of bigots.

— léa rose emery, Teen Vogue, "This Is What’s at Stake for the LGBTQ Community in the U.K. Right Now," 28 June 2017
The piece culminated with a call to show indifference to the lives of bigots.

— michael harriot, The Root, "College Campus Shut Down After Professor’s #LetThemFuckingDie Hashtag Scares White People," 22 June 2017
The Islamic society has said in court papers that it was targeted by bigots as the lengthy public hearing process played out.

— chris fuchs, NBC News, "New Jersey Township to Pay $3.25M Settlement Over Denied Mosque," 30 May 2017

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Origin and Etymology of bigot

French, hypocrite, bigot

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First Known Use: 1660

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bigot Synonyms

Synonyms

dogmatist, dogmatizer, partisan (also partizan), sectarian

Related Words

doctrinaire, fanatic, purist; jingoist, nationalist; racialist, racist, supremacist; chauvinist, sexist

Near Antonyms

freethinker, latitudinarian, liberal

Other Sociology Terms

bourgeois, ethos, eugenics, exurb, incommunicado, intelligentsia, megalopolis, metrosexual, mores, subculture

BIGOT Defined for English Language Learners

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Definition of bigot for English Language Learners

: 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)