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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According to a settlement announced Friday between the district and the California Attorney General’s Office, the district’s open enrollment process allegedly gave an advantage to higher income families, creating discriminatory barriers for students from disadvantaged groups.—
Jennah Pendleton,
Sacbee.com,
12 Jan. 2026 -
The state ordered the district to provide outside training for all administrators and history teachers to ensure instruction is not discriminatory or antisemitic.—
Molly Gibbs,
Mercury News,
12 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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To make matters worse, charging nonresidents more than residents pay is mean-spirited and unfair.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Jan. 2026
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Dungy wrote on social media that the schedule was unfair.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
13 Jan. 2026
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“Discriminational.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discriminational. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.
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