Definition of prejudicednext

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
There is no record of his ever making a prejudiced or crude remark about anyone. Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2026 Doing so might help Ortiz avoid being prejudiced by the evidence against Clase. Zack Meisel, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2026
Verb
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 The appellate court found that consolidating the cases prejudiced the jury. Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for prejudiced
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prejudiced
Adjective
  • While Europe will experience a total solar eclipse, millions of Americans will instead witness a partial solar eclipse followed by the annual Perseid meteor shower, creating an unusual back-to-back celestial spectacle.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Catcher Dalton Rushing’s elbow injury was diagnosed as a partial tear of his ulnar collateral ligament, as manager Dave Roberts first told AM 570’s David Vassegh.
    Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • The narrow waterway passing between Iran and Oman serves as the main route for shipping crude from oil-rich countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Kuwait to the rest of the world.
    Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The fighting has severely disrupted shipping through the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz, a narrow maritime choke point that typically handles around a fifth of the world's oil and natural gas.
    Sam Meredith, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • For two decades she's turned the science of human behavior into practical tools that help people communicate with confidence.
    Big Think, Big Think, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Cyber incidents have turned loss-of-control language into operational risk.
    Paulo Carvão, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • The board of Scripps rejected Sinclair’s hostile bid in December.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The documentary depicts a scenario involving a large hostile surface vessel formation approaching southeast of China.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 5 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • His fortunes started to change in his mid-50s, when he was cast in the 2008, off-Broadway revival of Sarah Kane’s audacious Blasted, as a bigoted and predatory tabloid writer.
    David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2026
  • The president himself frequently rails against transgender people in his public remarks and executive orders, spreading falsehoods and using bigoted language.
    Joseph Konig, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026
Verb
  • This technique overcomes limitations of older methods like genotyping arrays, which were often biased towards European ancestries and less accurate.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • But the market has been biased toward peace, tumbling 9% or more over single- or multi-day stretches eight times over the same stretch.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • The same distorted numbers apply here for the mid-week releases (Far From Home, Spider-Man 2 and The Amazing Spider-Man) but again, none of this changes the fact that even adjusted for inflation, Brand New Day is the clear winner.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • And my aim in this interview is to … take off the terrible mask which was placed on our face by terrible forces, some of them, of course, forces which work on it all the time to tell a distorted story.
    Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Several residents who spoke at the meetings characterized the opposition as a vocal minority of residents who have fixated on a few mostly parochial issues.
    John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 1 Aug. 2026
  • All but one, Pulaski Academy in Little Rock, were either parochial or had some religious affiliation.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 25 July 2026

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“Prejudiced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prejudiced. Accessed 8 Aug. 2026.

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