as in partisan
one who stubbornly or intolerantly adheres to his or her own opinions and prejudices
an incorrigible bigot who hasn't entertained a new thought in years
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Recent Examples of bigot
The fact that Woke America’s response to the ads are gaining little traction beyond far left, elite circles is proof that our culture is not interested in adopting ideas and arguments that make little sense and call most of society bigots.
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Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 1 Aug. 2025
Whether on purpose or by accident, Grok has been instructed or trained to reflect the style and rhetoric of a virulent bigot.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 8 July 2025
Over the years, many Americans who failed to bow a knee to any tenant of progressive theology have been labeled everything from Nazi fascists to bigots and haters of every shape and size.
—Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 3 July 2025
Social media grants to unhinged antisemites, racists and bigots like Ye the kind of massive global audience that Hitler’s propaganda minister Josef Goebbels could only have imagined.
—Jonathan A. Greenblatt, HollywoodReporter, 29 May 2025
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Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 1 Aug. 2025
Whether on purpose or by accident, Grok has been instructed or trained to reflect the style and rhetoric of a virulent bigot.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 8 July 2025
Over the years, many Americans who failed to bow a knee to any tenant of progressive theology have been labeled everything from Nazi fascists to bigots and haters of every shape and size.
—Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 3 July 2025
Social media grants to unhinged antisemites, racists and bigots like Ye the kind of massive global audience that Hitler’s propaganda minister Josef Goebbels could only have imagined.
—Jonathan A. Greenblatt, HollywoodReporter, 29 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bigot
Noun
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Partisan advantage Many observers perceive a partisan as well as principled divide on the current court.—
Morgan Marietta,
The Conversation,
2 Oct. 2025
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Before long, though, partisans on the other side had the inflammatory billboards replaced.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The Iraqi prime minister at the time, Nuri al-Maliki, was a Shiite sectarian with close ties to Iran, and many of his fellow Shia thought he could be relied on to listen to Iran’s wishes and find a way to avoid clashing with an Iranian proxy militia.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
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Both sides insist the other initiated the initial volley of gunfire that killed four agents and six sectarians.—
Joshua Alston,
Variety,
12 Apr. 2023
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Sly had too generous a spirit to be a dogmatist.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
24 Jan. 2025
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Although not a dogmatist, Xi cares deeply about ideology and has even blamed the collapse of the Soviet Union in part on Moscow’s failure to ensure that people took Marxism-Leninism seriously.—
Joseph Torigian,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2024
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“Bigot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bigot. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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