as in narrow
unwilling to grant other people social rights or to accept other viewpoints
most viewers were disgusted by the comments of the talk show's bigoted guest
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Recent Examples of bigoted
This concern over harmful or bigoted speech is not new.
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Jacob McHangama, The Conversation, 12 May 2025
The blatantly bigoted decision will someday be overturned, but not without inflicting enormous pain in the interim.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
Bea and Patience carry the show, while the rest of the ensemble is just sort of there, not really adding much, aside from Bea’s obnoxious and bigoted subordinate (played by Nathan Welsh) who is dismissive and sneering about Patience, both to her face and behind her back.
—Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2025
Tanenhaus dwells on the bigoted views of Buckley’s father and Buckley’s editorials in the 1950s favoring segregation.
—The Editors, National Review, 2 June 2025
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Jacob McHangama, The Conversation, 12 May 2025
The blatantly bigoted decision will someday be overturned, but not without inflicting enormous pain in the interim.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
Bea and Patience carry the show, while the rest of the ensemble is just sort of there, not really adding much, aside from Bea’s obnoxious and bigoted subordinate (played by Nathan Welsh) who is dismissive and sneering about Patience, both to her face and behind her back.
—Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2025
Tanenhaus dwells on the bigoted views of Buckley’s father and Buckley’s editorials in the 1950s favoring segregation.
—The Editors, National Review, 2 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bigoted
Adjective
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Career growth inside companies still follows a narrow script—progress often defined by vertical movement alone.—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes.com,
17 Aug. 2025
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The narrow, strong currents flow quickly, faster at times than an Olympic swimmer, and perpendicular to the coastline.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
16 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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South suburban committee members, meanwhile, showed parochial loyalty to Kelly.—
Rick Pearson,
Chicago Tribune,
19 July 2025
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In a chamber fraught with parochial interests and personalities in spades, the sprint to finish this by the July 4 holiday is going to be clipped.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
22 May 2025
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The United Church of Rogers Park’s nearly 100-year-old building, with its dark brown wood paneling and vintage casement windows, is an atmospheric stand-in for a provincial Russian household around the turn of the 20th century.—
Emily McClanathan,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Aug. 2025
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But Fan’s background – provincial, not well off or highly educated – may be contributing to official disquiet over her popularity, adding an extra layer of scrutiny.—
Chris Lau,
CNN Money,
27 July 2025
Adjective
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Shasta daisies are intolerant of wet soil, which encourages crown and root rots that shorten the life of plants.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
28 July 2025
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This silly holiday comedy features Sandler as both intolerant brother and odd-job twin sister (Jill) while everyone else looks on in horror.—
Declan Gallagher,
EW.com,
26 July 2025
Adjective
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Like almost every city in the South, Orlando was still struggling with its prejudiced past — damage that is still evident today in the city’s most impoverished neighborhoods, and in communities like Parramore where historic identity is threatened by dividing roads and gentrification.—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 July 2025
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The co-defendants argued that keeping the trial in Nelson County would impede their rights to a fair and impartial trial because the publicity and news coverage the case has received could lead to a prejudiced jury pool.—
Killian Baarlaer,
The Courier-Journal,
2 July 2025
Adjective
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As a consequence, the illiberal, unhinged right, now united behind Trump, has stolen a march on them.—
Book Marks
August 1,
Literary Hub,
1 Aug. 2025
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Its opposite—illiberal—means stingy, narrow-minded, intolerant, provincial, unenlightened, and using government to insure the flourishing of only the few.—
Harper’s Magazine,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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Its opposite—illiberal—means stingy, narrow-minded, intolerant, provincial, unenlightened, and using government to insure the flourishing of only the few.—
Harper’s Magazine,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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That is something that has always struck me as strange and narrow-minded.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 June 2025
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“Bigoted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bigoted. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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