How to Use discriminatory in a Sentence

discriminatory

adjective

• The law prohibits discriminatory hiring practices.
• The reestablishment of White rule in the South soon led to a wave of discriminatory new laws.
  — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2021
• Democrats said that part of the bill would be discriminatory.
  — Jim Saunders, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2023
• The suit argued that the law was both discriminatory and vague.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2023
• The Supreme Court ruled that job transfers don't have to include a change in rank or pay to be deemed discriminatory.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2024
• The danger is not so much the act of overturning a city ordinance, as that could be a good thing in the case of a discriminatory law.
  — Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 10 Feb. 2024
• All of the parents said the treatment of their sons was unfair and discriminatory.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Aug. 2023
• The nipple heel is an I-gotcha-shoe, something to flick your nose at the discriminatory height rules of the Cannes Film Festival.
  — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2025
• What’s more, the Court said that, even if there were a discriminatory motive, the plaintiff should still lose if the same thing would have happened in its absence.
  — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Gaiser said that the court should still make clear that the burden can’t solely be on the employer to show why an act wasn’t discriminatory.
  — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2025
• Young in issuing his ruling in the spring agreed the plan was not discriminatory.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2021
• Some locals spoke out against the campaign to the BBC, finding the campaign's target of British males discriminatory.
  — Kristine Parks, Fox News, 3 Apr. 2023
• The custom, then, was seen as discriminatory and even ageist.
  — Christian Allair, Vogue, 7 July 2021
• With a spike in hate crimes and waves of discriminatory policies, the marginalized were not fragile for pointing out the dangers to their being.
  — Yangyang Cheng, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
• Decades of discriminatory practices have led to loss of land and livelihood for many Black farmers.
  — Amanda Albee, Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2021
• By not taking the case, the Supreme Court let stand a ruling from an appeals court in Virginia that found the policy was discriminatory.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2023
• Chu ruled the strike was not discriminatory and noted two Asian women were already on the jury.
  — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2021
• At the time, Wilkinson said the district’s dress code was discriminatory.
  — NBC News, 21 Apr. 2021
• In March, Brody threw out a civil rights lawsuit that claimed the practice is discriminatory.
  — Maryclaire Dale and Michelle R. Smith, Chron, 14 May 2021
• In March, Brody threw out a civil rights lawsuit that claimed the practice is discriminatory.
  — Maryclaire Dale and Michelle R. Smith, Star Tribune, 14 May 2021
• The memorandum, first posted on the West Point subreddit and then on X, has drawn ire from some who feel the ban is discriminatory.
  — Miranda Jeyaretnam, TIME, 5 Feb. 2025
• The court also said plaintiffs challenging the voting maps hadn’t proven their claims that the districts were discriminatory on the basis of race.
  — Alexa Corse, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2022
• The high court said at the time that allegedly discriminatory voting laws could be challenged after they were put in place.
  — Cayla Harris, San Antonio Express-News, 1 July 2021
• Money began to pour in from the big banks looking to fulfill their post-Floyd promises to make right decades of discriminatory practices.
  — Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
• That doesn't have to prove intent; rather, just the result of a law or policy or map being discriminatory.
  — Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 July 2025
• British employers were the most discriminatory in the study, which also looked at Norway, Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands.
  — Amit Katwala, Wired, 22 Aug. 2021
• That made no difference, the judges wrote, because the discriminatory effect is the same, even if done for partisan gain.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2021
• Trans advocates slammed the move as openly discriminatory and vowed to challenge it in court.
  — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 27 Jan. 2025
• Sherrill Farrell, one of the five plaintiffs in the suit against the Pentagon over discriminatory discharges.
  — Jessica Kegu, CBS News, 8 Aug. 2023
• Courts have blocked some of those policies, with judges in those cases ruling that the policies were discriminatory against the transgender community.
  — Sonam Sheth, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 July 2025