bigot

noun

big·ot ˈbi-gət

: 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

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 Allowing hateful, narrow minded bigots to decide what all children can read is not my thing either. —

Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 14 Nov. 2023 Still, the war may as well have been yesterday for all of the old bigot’s antics and the vinegary asides by his Black employees. —

Peter Marks, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023 But there’s a downside for any bigots who try this. —

Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2023 And Miller, who is Jewish, took issue with that and called her a bigot. —

Laura Johnston, cleveland, 23 Aug. 2023 The video of what Barkley does next has gone viral and outraged the bigots. —

Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023 In fact, in a March interview with Rolling Stone, the TikTok star explained that a major part of her journey was realizing that her people-pleasing nature couldn’t convince bigots to love her. —

Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2023 And here, because the capital is in Nashville, the bigots can speak out more here. —

Daniel Scheffler, SPIN, 1 June 2023 Sometimes that means fighting the bigots, but mostly to me, that means loving my community. —

Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 31 May 2023 See More

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