as in discriminatory
favoring, applying, or being unequal treatment of different classes of people
are you guilty of discriminational behavior toward people unlike yourself?
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Adjective
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County officials have said in the past that to deny an airline’s contract could be considered discriminatory by the Federal Aviation Administration, which provides more than 90% of the funding for capital improvements at the county’s airports.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Oct. 2025 -
Three years later, in 2023, the task force produced a 1,060-page report that catalogued California’s discriminatory treatment of Black people after its 1850 admission as a state that officially prohibited slavery.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Her parents were angry, and her sister accused her of being unfair.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
26 Oct. 2025
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Trump has argued his sweeping tariffs on imports across the world are in response to unfair trade practices against the United States.—
Joey Garrison,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Discriminational.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discriminational. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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