race-baiting

noun

race-bait·​ing ˈrās-ˌbā-tiŋ 

often attributive

: the making of verbal attacks against members of a racial group

Examples of race-baiting in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

He's race-baiting to appease the people who shamed him for his previous juvenile lifestyle, while quietly surrounding himself with mostly white men. — Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2026

Or was the issue simply that dunking on DINKs is a riskier gambit for graduates of Yale Law School than race-baiting? — Matthew Walther, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026

Moreover, the current mayor has resorted to race-baiting, further dividing the city, and has pursued a socialist agenda to Chicago’s detriment and its taxpayers. — Juan Rangel, Chicago Tribune, 8 Mar. 2026

Fox has become a pariah in the entertainment industry because of his anti-immigration rhetoric, race-baiting, and misogyny. — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 24 July 2025

Historians have focused instead on role of Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Cabinet Minister Ian MacKenzie, and race-baiting politicians in British Columbia. — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 16 Mar. 2025

And yet for a party and movement built in part on exclusion and a campaign marked at times by race-baiting, there were conspicuous overtures to diversity and inclusion, and sly acknowledgments of the power of the multiracial stew of American pop. — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1917, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for race-baiting

• abdicating
• abrogating
• activating
• actuating
• advocating
• aggravating
• aggregating
• agitating
• allocating
• alternating
• animating
• annotating