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as in impatient
unable or unwilling to endure
intolerant of fools, she is not an easy person to work for
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as in bigoted
unwilling to grant other people social rights or to accept other viewpoints
intolerant people who callously deny others the very rights that they take for granted
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Recent Examples of intolerant
The Portuguese were riding the momentum generated by their own seaborne expansion as well as by the fulfillment of the Reconquista and the establishment of an aggressively intolerant Christian regime in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula.
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Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
He’d been gluten intolerant since childhood and had dealt with IBS at different intervals.
—Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 24 Feb. 2026
As a host, Bragg was both inviting and impatient, genuinely curious about his guests’ ideas but intolerant of digression or indulgent nerding out.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2026
Gluten-intolerant people get sick after eating gluten and may experience digestive issues.
—Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 8 Jan. 2026
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Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
He’d been gluten intolerant since childhood and had dealt with IBS at different intervals.
—Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 24 Feb. 2026
As a host, Bragg was both inviting and impatient, genuinely curious about his guests’ ideas but intolerant of digression or indulgent nerding out.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2026
Gluten-intolerant people get sick after eating gluten and may experience digestive issues.
—Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 8 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intolerant
Adjective
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With the second quarter now underway, many Venezuelans are growing impatient for changes to materialize.—
CNN Staff,
CNN Money,
23 Apr. 2026
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But this type of team member could also be impatient with team members who are overly diplomatic.—
Nancy Pulciano,
Rolling Stone,
20 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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This is a guy who could write these incredibly bigoted figures, and then also write this really searing indictment of American materialism.—
Elisabeth Garber-Paul,
Rolling Stone,
19 Apr. 2026
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On Sunday Hungary’s far-right leader Viktor Orban fell in an election after 16 years of some of the most bigoted and, by many accounts, corrupt rule in post-Soviet Eastern Europe.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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An energy vampire has bad body language, the complaining look on their face, the vocal complainer.—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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But our understanding of pedantry, denoting the sticklerishness of academic specialists and grammar obsessives, is a relatively narrow one.—
Clare Bucknell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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Of course, the narrow bench-style seat will also help shorter riders flat-foot the motorcycle perfectly.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
24 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Research shows the disparity between vaccination coverage in private and parochial/religious versus public schools is that private and parochial/religious schools tend to have higher rates of exemptions to vaccinations for moral and religious beliefs.—
Kar-Hai Chu,
The Conversation,
10 Apr. 2026
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But quietly, the third-year forward had put himself in position for a more parochial reserve reward, one that caught him unaware.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
30 Mar. 2026
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The premium cruise line also supports local businesses when buying baklava in Turkey, cold cuts in Greece, cheeses in Quebec and beer in Alaska, among other provincial provisions.—
David Dickstein,
Oc Register,
22 Apr. 2026
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The interior and education ministries held a joint school security meeting in the capital, Ankara, on Thursday, that was attended by both ministers and all 81 of Turkey’s provincial governors, as well as police chiefs and provincial education directors.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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But the rich sometimes actually can face a prejudiced jury.—
John Seiler,
Oc Register,
9 Apr. 2026
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For their part, Berman and Bryant have a reason to be prejudiced against trees, but Berman doesn’t hold a grudge after a tree crushed one of their cars on Bryant’s birthday nine years ago.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2026
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The 16-year illiberal, undemocratic, authoritarian rule of Viktor Orbán is ending.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Apr. 2026
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After 16 years of what Orbán himself described as an illiberal regime, the Hungarian leader’s political party, Fidesz, had come to control much of the judiciary, bureaucracy, and universities, as well as a group of oligarchic companies that in turn controlled a good chunk of the economy.—
Anne Applebaum,
The Atlantic,
13 Apr. 2026
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“Intolerant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intolerant. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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