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

most viewers were disgusted by the comments of the talk show's bigoted guest

Recent Examples on the Web

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

In that vein, centering a parent-child relationship like Flamingo and Lidia’s (and having several transgender aunts look out for a cisgender child by encircling her like a lion’s pride) is a stern rebuke of bigoted narratives about trans predation. —Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 15 May 2025

Much of that goodwill disappeared mere weeks after the nominations when enterprising X users dug up some of Gascón's old tweets which revealed a pattern of bigoted viewpoints, with disparaging comments about Islam among the most egregious. —Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2025

Immortality offers a liberation that the Jim Crow-era South doesn’t, both for the Black characters and even the white ones, whose bigoted special status winds up narrowing their options. —Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1660, in the meaning defined above