How to Use bigot in a Sentence
bigot
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The video of what Barkley does next has gone viral and outraged the bigots.
—Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
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In 2018, most of us are lucky enough not to work with outright bigots.
—Nick Levine, GQ, 14 June 2018
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Blacks who the man had meant to shoot welcomed the bigot with outstretched arms.
—John Schmid, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 June 2018
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But a bigot on this team — this team of all others — stuns the senses.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2024
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Now, bigots are even more wrong and strong in their hatred.
—Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 26 May 2023
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And Miller, who is Jewish, took issue with that and called her a bigot.
—Laura Johnston, cleveland, 23 Aug. 2023
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It’s rarely practiced when the bigot thinks the targets of their words are watching.
—Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2021
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And the bigots, like the cheerleaders, were just warming up.
—Howard Gensler, Philly.com, 20 Oct. 2017
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And that marketing falls apart when the person at the center of it is a racist bigot.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
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We’re told the old bigot fell down a well, but Berniece suspects that her brother must have pushed him.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 5 Sep. 2024
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The bigots and bullies, in other words, are getting away with it.
—Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2019
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What's most shocking isn't that there are anti-gay and anti-trans bigots in the world.
—Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2024
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The Ethicist: What to do when an older acquaintance turns out to be a bigot.
—Ian Prasad Philbrick, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2022
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The group’s escape from Simonsville is the first heart-pounding flight from a bigot — or, in this case, a pack of bigots — on fast wheels.
—Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 19 Aug. 2020
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Well, what about the detail that the founder of Payne Motors is described as a bigot, a theme that echoes the real Henry Ford?
—Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 2 Jan. 2022
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Allegedly, the woman called Kotesky a bigot and threatened to throw up on him.
—Meredith Carey, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Jan. 2017
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But, on the other hand, there were also those who were racists and bigots and everything else.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 4 May 2020
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Now she has been labeled a transphobe, a bigot and worse.
—Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 23 Apr. 2022
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He is embraced by bigots, who recognize him as one of their own.
—Leonard Pitts, Alaska Dispatch News, 16 Sep. 2017
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Commentary: How the aesthetics of drag drive the bigots mad.
—Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
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Such a religious bigot should not be giving the prayer that opens the United States Embassy in Jerusalem.
—Margaret Hartmann, Daily Intelligencer, 14 May 2018
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The piece culminated with a call to show indifference to the lives of bigots.
—Michael Harriot, The Root, 22 June 2017
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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
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The condemned man shot a bigot in self-defense, but murder is murder.
—Colin Marshall, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2022
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Stroman is not going to back down from a fight, especially to a bigot and racist.
—Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2022
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The same bigots who are sending people back away from their children are the ones who brought my ancestors here.
—Fox News, 3 Aug. 2018
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Or in the case of Pittsburgh, America does not have a monopoly on bigots.
—German Lopez, Vox, 29 Oct. 2018
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The local store no longer sells Black jockeys, so Larry is forced to look like a complete bigot in front of the Black sales associate.
—Sarah Nechamkin, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2024
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Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a bigot who tore down and discarded four religious Hindu flags hanging in front of a Queens home.
—Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 26 Apr. 2025
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Lord John immediately rebukes the relationship, and Claire later calls him a bigot for it.
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 7 Dec. 2024
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