Definition of bigotry
bigotries
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Examples of bigotry in a Sentence
a deeply ingrained bigotry prevented her from even considering the counterarguments
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Modern San struggle to cope in a market economy, thanks to this heritage (and to anti-San bigotry).
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The reason was simple: despite their bigotry, members of the Maryland bar had decided to treat Marshall as a lawyer, first and foremost.
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Failing to remove these names from the city’s streets, which run primarily through diverse communities, sends the dispiriting message that racism, hate and bigotry are sadly still tolerated.
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Will the Supreme Court rule a wedding cake store has to make a cake for a gay wedding, or is personal religion now a new refuge of bigotry?
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Ironically, the bigotry that's evident in all this has been piling on in Facebook discussions and other Internet comments (where the worst of her attackers have taken her past words out of context and maliciously distorted their meaning).
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As a Jew in Germanic lands, that turn-of-the-20th-century composer battled bigotry throughout his career.
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Qatar hosts al-Qaradawi, and some Qatari citizens own Salafi satellite channels that broadcast religious bigotry across the Middle East.
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The 2016 SBC passed a resolution recognizing the Confederate flag as a symbol of hatred and bigotry, and asked their members to discontinue displaying the flag.
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Origin and Etymology of bigotry
see bigot
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: acts or beliefs characteristic of a bigot
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