1
as in partial
inclined to favor one side over another
an employer who is known to be prejudiced toward graduates from Ivy League schools
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2
as in narrow
unwilling to grant other people social rights or to accept other viewpoints
racially prejudiced people have existed throughout recorded history
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as in biased
to cause to have often negative opinions formed without sufficient knowledge
all the bad stories I had heard about the incoming CEO prejudiced me against him even before the first meeting
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Recent Examples of prejudiced
Jonathan Zimmerman, New York Daily News, 14 Apr. 2025
Take Stallone’s troubled Vietnam vet, Rambo, who hates prejudiced cops, duplicitous CIA agents and sadistic Soviet lieutenant colonels (not in that order).
—John Devore, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
The 28-year-old from Vineland, New Jersey, took to social media and threw a prejudiced tantrum aimed at the entire country of Mexico.
—Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Humans like to put things in distinctive bins, but nature is not so prejudiced.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2025
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Adjective
Although campuses witnessed a spike in antisemitic incidents after the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, people who attend universities are significantly less prejudiced against Jews than the overall population is.
—Jonathan Zimmerman, New York Daily News, 14 Apr. 2025
Take Stallone’s troubled Vietnam vet, Rambo, who hates prejudiced cops, duplicitous CIA agents and sadistic Soviet lieutenant colonels (not in that order).
—John Devore, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
The 28-year-old from Vineland, New Jersey, took to social media and threw a prejudiced tantrum aimed at the entire country of Mexico.
—Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Humans like to put things in distinctive bins, but nature is not so prejudiced.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prejudiced
Adjective
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Oddly, Long’s name was blacked out of that leaked partial copy of the complaint, but Pryor’s was not.—
Steve Bousquet,
Sun Sentinel,
10 May 2025
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The History of Assassination Attempts on U.S. Presidents, Including Ronald Reagan’s Near-Fatal Bullet Wound in 1981 Brady's wound left him with permanent disabilities, including speech challenges and partial paralysis that required him to use a wheelchair.—
Kyler Alvord,
People.com,
9 May 2025
Adjective
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This was a narrow approach, aimed at providing vouchers for students in districts that were in receivership (a sort of financial takeover primarily for financial issues).—
Peter Greene,
Forbes.com,
13 May 2025
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During the trial, Amélie testified that Depardieu grabbed her hips in a narrow corridor and started touching her, pointing to her buttocks, hip, and pubic area.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
13 May 2025
Adjective
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And Marguerite did actually manage to live there for years, scraping together a life on the hostile tundra.—
The Atlantic,
The Atlantic,
15 May 2025
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And this is a very hard-line government that has taken a kind of hostile view of everybody in the region.—
Obed Manuel,
NPR,
15 May 2025
Adjective
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Immortality offers a liberation that the Jim Crow-era South doesn’t, both for the Black characters and even the white ones, whose bigoted special status winds up narrowing their options.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2025
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As the series progresses, Hampton isn’t framed as a Black man cast aside by a bigoted society or a poor man whose only chance at the good life requires a bit of bad behavior.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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If child custody is a factor, the child’s testimony is parsed under the light of a biased adult who either coached the child, or negatively influenced the child by asking leading questions, so as to distort the child’s memory and reporting.—
Patricia Fersch,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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Continue reading … Click here for more cartoons… MEDIA WRITING ON THE WALL – NPR CEO claps back at notion outlet is biased after Trump slashes taxpayer funds.—
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FOXNews.com,
5 May 2025
Adjective
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Driven together by anti-Western grievance and their own parochial interests, China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia are creating substantial authoritarian scale.—
Kurt M. Campbell,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Apr. 2025
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The plum political prize, of course, will be deciding how congressional districts are drawn, perhaps giving this parochial court a major say in which party—and its preferred Speaker—gets to run the U.S. House.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
31 Mar. 2025
Verb
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But now Miami would have to be convinced of bringing in the 31-year-old Beal, who, by picking up his $57 million player option for 2026-27, is still owed $110 million for two seasons after this one.—
Zach Harper,
The Athletic,
6 Jan. 2025
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Once and for all, you will be convinced that ranch and pickles are the perfect pairing.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
5 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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In the distorted reality of Trump 2.0, that slightly lighter punch in the gut is what counts as relief.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
13 May 2025
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Nicole Schaefer Nicole Schaefer, RN, LME, is a prominent figure in the aesthetics industry who possesses the power to transform every distorted reflection into a work of art.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
7 May 2025
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“Prejudiced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prejudiced. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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