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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
Primroses are a bit picky and intolerant of full sun, dry weather, and extreme cold.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 4 June 2025
Hellenistic culture was imperfectly tolerant; the Christian one perfectly intolerant.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Moto Moto, run by the spunky Rashida (Arica Jackson) and emceed by the exuberant Ahmed (Nick Rashad Burroughs) becomes a hotbed of heterogeneity (there’s even a shaman) in a culture that is otherwise intolerant of mixing.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 21 May 2025
We were just expected to be OK with it, to shove down our discomfort, our embarrassment, our fear, because standing up for ourselves would mean being labeled as intolerant or hateful or bigoted.
—Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 5 Feb. 2025
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Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 4 June 2025
Hellenistic culture was imperfectly tolerant; the Christian one perfectly intolerant.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Moto Moto, run by the spunky Rashida (Arica Jackson) and emceed by the exuberant Ahmed (Nick Rashad Burroughs) becomes a hotbed of heterogeneity (there’s even a shaman) in a culture that is otherwise intolerant of mixing.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 21 May 2025
We were just expected to be OK with it, to shove down our discomfort, our embarrassment, our fear, because standing up for ourselves would mean being labeled as intolerant or hateful or bigoted.
—Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 5 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intolerant
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Which means Facebook and Zuckerberg’s purchases were attempts to keep Facebook great in a marketplace that routinely and ruthlessly puts former greats out to pasture. Crucial about Zuckerberg’s keen eye for what’s ahead is that markets, stock markets in particular, are a bit impatient.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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Advertisement Finally, graduating students are often impatient—for success, money, titles, work-life balance, and more.—
Michael B. Horn,
Time,
24 June 2025
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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
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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
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Romero gave chase down a narrow alley where Biddle said Sartor turned and fired, striking Romero in the right arm.—
City News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 June 2025
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While the House of Representatives passed one version of the legislation and the Senate advanced a separate one, the GOP’s narrow majorities in both chambers make the timing of the eventual package and its exact provisions less certain.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
30 June 2025
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In his quest for a definitive biography of Joyce as a cosmopolitan artist, above the parochial fray, Ellmann downplayed Joyce’s interest in politics.—
Eric Bulson,
The Atlantic,
16 June 2025
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Rather, Colbert won after knocking, by his count, on 20,000 doors, wearing out several pairs of size 15 shoes and putting parochial concerns, such as wildfire prevention, disaster preparedness and flood control, at the center of his campaign.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
Adjective
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Its funders include private companies and four layers of government (provincial, regional, national, and European).—
Christine Ro,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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The Inuit community wants to work with scientists to set up a provincial park that would protect the land while allowing researchers to study it.—
Adithi Ramakrishnan,
Los Angeles Times,
27 June 2025
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Survey after survey shows that those who engage in remembrance are less likely to hold prejudiced views toward Jews and other groups, Mr. Walter says.—
Mark Sappenfield,
Christian Science Monitor,
2 May 2025
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BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, is back in business in Texas after the state removed it from a blacklist of financial firms that Republican officials deemed to be prejudiced against the oil and gas industry.—
Tim McDonnell,
semafor.com,
5 June 2025
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The question of whether India will be an illiberal great power thus remains open.—
ASHLEY J. TELLIS,
Foreign Affairs,
17 June 2025
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At least since 2012, Putin has sought to build and enforce a dominant ideology built on illiberal values and historical revisionism.—
ANDREI YAKOVLEV,
Foreign Affairs,
16 May 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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The inherent orthodoxy of his premise excluded all other alternatives to narrow-minded rationalism and its ethical constraints.—
Jonathon Keats,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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“Intolerant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intolerant. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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