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
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 average person might be prejudiced, and what could be more unreasonable than prejudice? Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 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 See All Example Sentences for prejudiced
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prejudiced
Adjective
  • Experts said it was most likely caused by a partial glacier collapse that sent tons of ice and rock crashing down into the valley below, setting off a powerful landslide.
    Jennifer Jett, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2026
  • August’s full sturgeon moon will align with a partial lunar eclipse this week, producing a stunning cosmic sight for sky-gazers.
    Amen Galinato, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Burner accounts from China and Russia And those partnership ads are channeled through a narrow group of creators, ORL says.
    Jim Edwards, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Just like their simulated counterparts, the worms consistently moved through the narrower channels faster than the wider ones.
    K. R. Prathyusha, The Conversation, 31 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The last act before festival founder Olivia Rodrigo, Roan turned it out with all of her powers—bolstered by a bold and bitchy, razor-sharp bob.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 30 Aug. 2026
  • The maps revealed that a chronic problem had turned critical.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Forecasters said the system is expected to be short-lived because of hostile environmental conditions starting on Friday that will prevent it from developing further.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Electronic warfare systems such as NGJ-MB are carried by aircraft and use advanced electronics to interfere with or counter hostile electromagnetic systems.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • In its bleakest moments, the novel suggests that the ordeal of being gay in a venomously bigoted society negates its bounty.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
  • The latter accidentally does happen, which leads to power struggles between the bigoted jerk and our trio of heroines.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Groups like EdTrust-West and The Campaign for College Opportunity, which champion equity and access to higher education, echoed that standardized tests were biased against low-income and minority students.
    Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 22 Aug. 2026
  • We might be biased, but Until Saturday is the 2001 Miami Hurricanes of college football newsletters.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • The standard medical terms clinicians rely on may become distorted or polluted.
    Frank Naeymi-Rad, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • La Nueva Violencia is a smirking, libidinous play for the dance floor, picking up where the distorted guitars of the last record left off and channeling each new riff into sleazy post-punk and electroclash that stick to the body like sweaty velvet.
    Richard Villegas, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • In some cases, opposition might amount to parochial not in my backyard — or NIMBY — concerns.
    Stefan Chavez-Norgaard, The Conversation, 20 Aug. 2026
  • 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

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“Prejudiced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prejudiced. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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