1
as in impatient
unable or unwilling to endure
intolerant of fools, she is not an easy person to work for
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as in bigoted
unwilling to grant other people social rights or to accept other viewpoints
intolerant people who callously deny others the very rights that they take for granted
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Recent Examples of intolerant
And as the film builds toward the inevitable heartbreak and clash with intolerant family members, the emotion needed to carry such heavy subject matter simply isn’t there.
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Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 30 Jan. 2025
Some individuals—many more than have allergies to milk—are intolerant to it, meaning their bodies struggle to digest dairy products, usually due to milk sugar called lactose.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
They were politicized, rigid in their views, and intolerant of other opinions.
—Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
Hellenistic culture was imperfectly tolerant; the Christian one perfectly intolerant.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
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Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 30 Jan. 2025
Some individuals—many more than have allergies to milk—are intolerant to it, meaning their bodies struggle to digest dairy products, usually due to milk sugar called lactose.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
They were politicized, rigid in their views, and intolerant of other opinions.
—Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025
Hellenistic culture was imperfectly tolerant; the Christian one perfectly intolerant.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intolerant
Adjective
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Also, Trump is very impatient, and Putin is playing a long game.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
30 May 2025
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But despite the promises, Trump seems to have grown increasingly impatient with Moscow and Kyiv.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
27 May 2025
Adjective
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Despite this ostensible colonization of trans bodies, Céspedes trains his camera on the inherent humanity of all his subjects, including his most bigoted aggressors.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
15 May 2025
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Attempting to smear the DNI as being in a cult is bigoted behavior.—
Tim Marchman,
Wired News,
6 May 2025
Adjective
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The Denver Nuggets trailed by 11 with about four minutes left to start the Western Conference semis but stormed back at Paycom Center for a narrow win — the Thunder won that series in seven games.—
Joe Vardon,
New York Times,
6 June 2025
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For decades, international philanthropy has framed Africa through a narrow lens: a continent in need, a landscape of poverty, disaster and helplessness.—
Victoria Philips,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
Adjective
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The third barrier to advancement Hamilton mentioned is risk aversion, and the fourth is parochial services.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2025
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Prevost spent nearly two decades in missionary service in Peru, beginning in 1985 with roles such as parochial vicar and chancellor in Chulucanas, and later director of formation for Augustinian aspirants in Trujillo.—
Chicago Tribune,
Twin Cities,
11 May 2025
Adjective
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Segovia, a romantic hilltop city in the country’s largest region, Castilla y León has the Antonio Machado House-Museum, a prime example of early 1900s provincial Castillian living, named after the Spanish poet who lived there.—
Jessica Benavides Canepa,
AFAR Media,
4 June 2025
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Most of the smoke reaching the American Midwest has been coming from fires northwest of the provincial capital of Winnipeg in Manitoba.—
Steve Karnowski,
Chicago Tribune,
4 June 2025
Adjective
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BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, is back in business in Texas after the state removed it from a blacklist of financial firms that Republican officials deemed to be prejudiced against the oil and gas industry.—
Tim McDonnell,
semafor.com,
5 June 2025
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Caton’s attorneys filed to dismiss the charges after Oleson was disbarred from practicing law in Idaho, arguing that continuing with the case was improper and prejudiced their client.—
Kevin Fixler,
Idaho Statesman,
9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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At least since 2012, Putin has sought to build and enforce a dominant ideology built on illiberal values and historical revisionism.—
ANDREI YAKOVLEV,
Foreign Affairs,
16 May 2025
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These fissures are where Islamism leaps in to segregate, cohort, and indoctrinate with antidemocratic illiberal Islamist values forming the milieu ripe for radicalization, including terrorism and evolutionary jihad.—
Faisal Kutty,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 May 2025
Adjective
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The inherent orthodoxy of his premise excluded all other alternatives to narrow-minded rationalism and its ethical constraints.—
Jonathon Keats,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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Of the trio, Bernadette was written as the strictest rule-follower — possibly even the most narrow-minded.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Intolerant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intolerant. Accessed 9 Jun. 2025.
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