discriminatory

adjective dis·crim·i·na·to·ry \ dis-ˈkri-mə-nə-ˌtȯr-ē , -ˈkrim-nə- \

|Updated on: 5 Jun 2018

Examples: discriminatory in a Sentence

Definition of discriminatory

1 : discriminative 1

2 : applying or favoring discrimination in treatment

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discriminatorily

play \-ˌkri-mə-nə-ˈtȯr-ə-lē, -ˌkrim-nə-\ adverb

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Examples of discriminatory in a Sentence

The law prohibits discriminatory hiring practices.
a company that was fined for its discriminatory practices in the hiring of women

Recent Examples of discriminatory from the Web

Democrats say this will open the door to discriminatory practices because the rules required collection of credit scores, loan amounts and interest rates in an effort to expose redlining and lending discrimination.

— emily flitter, New York Times, "Congress Approves First Big Dodd-Frank Rollback," 22 May 2018
Its initial reaction to the scandal was to propose new regulations institutionalizing the discriminatory practices, as if the problem was merely that conservative organizations didn’t know in advance that the IRS would single them out.

— bradley a. smith, WSJ, "The Unresolved IRS Scandal," 9 May 2018
Consumer advocates have said that repealing the CFPB policy would open the door to discriminatory practices.

— washington post, latimes.com, "Senate poised to kill CFPB effort to prevent racial discrimination in auto loan market," 17 Apr. 2018
Last year, ProPublica reported how Facebook algorithms did not prevent discriminatory practices by housing advertisers who were excluding users by race, or by recruiting agencies who were excluding users on the basis of age.

— junaid nabi, STAT, "What Facebook’s public scrutiny can teach us about artificial intelligence in health care," 11 Apr. 2018
The system deducted points for older, more dilapidated areas, as well as areas where people of color were living (which, thanks to discriminatory practices, often ended up being the same thing).

— patrick sisson, Curbed, "Why buying a house today is so much harder than in 1950," 10 Apr. 2018
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 aimed to protect African-Americans from widespread discriminatory practices, and voter registration trended upward shortly after.

— adrian sainz, BostonGlobe.com, "Rekindling of King’s ‘Poor People’s Campaign’ takes shape," 3 Apr. 2018
Trump is also directing his officials to pursue a World Trade Organization complaint against China for discriminatory licensing practices.

— Fortune, "Trump Orders Sweeping Tariffs on $50 Billion in Chinese Imports," 22 Mar. 2018
The school-to-prison pipeline has been, without question, built on the foundation of racially discriminatory school discipline practices.

— sherrilyn ifill, Time, "Black Children Will Be the Victims of Armed Teachers," 5 Mar. 2018

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