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prejudiced 1 of 2

adjective

ˈpre-jə-dəst How to pronounce prejudiced (audio)
Definition of prejudicednext
1
as in partial
inclined to favor one side over another an employer who is known to be prejudiced toward graduates from Ivy League schools

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2
as in narrow
unwilling to grant other people social rights or to accept other viewpoints racially prejudiced people have existed throughout recorded history

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prejudiced

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verb

past tense of prejudice
as in turned
to cause to have often negative opinions formed without sufficient knowledge all the bad stories I had heard about the incoming CEO prejudiced me against him even before the first meeting

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Recent Examples of prejudiced
Adjective
But the rich sometimes actually can face a prejudiced jury. — John Seiler, Oc Register, 9 Apr. 2026 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
Verb
The court then sent the case back to district court to determine whether Sims’ public defender’s performance while initially representing him on the matter prejudiced his case. — Sofi Zeman august 24, Kansas City Star, 24 Aug. 2026 Ghalenoei said the disruption had prejudiced Iran in Monday’s 2-2 draw with New Zealand. — Reuters, NBC news, 19 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for prejudiced
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prejudiced
  1. partial
  2. narrow
  3. turned
  4. hostile
  5. bigoted
  6. biased
  7. distorted
  8. parochial
Adjective
  • Additionally, The Craft of Living, long available only in a partial, bowdlerized version, has finally been translated in full, by Julian Sachs, with a helpful introduction and scholarly apparatus by Iuri Moscardi.
    — Max Norman, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
  • While some patients may regain partial vision over time, there is no proven treatment that can reverse the optic nerve damage.
    — Melissa Rudy , Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of partial
Adjective
  • The males feed under a narrow, white, waxy coating and mate with females in spring.
    — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
  • That changed in 2013, when a small, dark body orbiting between Saturn and Uranus passed in front of a star and blinked twice on either side of the main event, revealing two narrow rings around an object barely 250 kilometers across.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 19 Sep. 2026
Definition of narrow
Verb
  • Your eyes feast on the yellows, golds, and oranges smattered with some greens that haven’t turned yet.
    — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026
  • One of London’s historic Arts & Crafts houses has just been turned into six apartments—one of which is distinguished by a chic, designer interior.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of turned
Adjective
  • The lawsuit is one of at least 13 cases filed in 2026 by current and former Independence Police Department officers alleging hostile work environments and dysfunction within the department.
    — Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Chambliss aims to join them while avoiding a long list of talented signal callers who fell apart in one of the sport’s most-hostile environments.
    — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of hostile
Adjective
  • Over the five hours that follow, the series tracks what led to the tragedy — specifically, his complicated relationship with his resentful, bigoted next-door neighbor, Clive (David Morrissey).
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Elon Musk, once glorified as a technological genius, has come under fire for making bigoted and antisemitic comments.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of bigoted
Verb
  • In the memo, which was filed under seal in support of a prior motion to disqualify the judge, Rauch described his goal as not to show that Kohberger was incompetent, but to bolster his argument that the judge may be biased.
    — Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Cox’s film is biased in Bill’s favor, portraying him as a lapdog whose love for this screeching, spiteful, beady-eyed woman is his great tragic flaw.
    — Katie Rife, IndieWire, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of biased
Adjective
  • The shoegaze sound keeps evolving, as young artists keep hearing themselves in those mega-distorted waves of guitar fuzz.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Hanlen acknowledged the political attention Cunningham has attracted and suggested the public often receives a distorted impression of her.
    — Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of distorted
Adjective
  • Back then the age of discovery was at its peak, and startling new information about what had previously been a very parochial planet was flooding into the academies of Europe and the Americas.
    — Ian Tattersall, The New York Review of Books, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Among the bureaucratic, parochial, pastoral and familial spaces his work takes his clients, a reflection on roots, gentrification and the act of remaining emerges.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of parochial

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“Prejudiced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prejudiced. Accessed 25 Sep. 2026.

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