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 goal is to avoid potential jurors who may be prejudiced, the law firm said. Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 June 2026 Then, in 2005, the Texas First Court of Appeals overturned Yates’ conviction after finding the forensic psychiatrist who testified for the prosecution gave erroneous testimony that may have prejudiced the jury. Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for prejudiced
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prejudiced
Adjective
  • Rooms on lower floors have at least partial views of the city.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Previous efforts to broker even a partial ceasefire have repeatedly fallen apart within hours, with both sides accusing each other of violations.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • Louisville and Boise State don’t move much after narrow losses to top-10 teams.
    Chris Vannini, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The extremely short, picometer-scale wavelength of nuclear-decay neutrinos makes the possible collective emission cone extraordinarily narrow.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The Sodomites sinned and got what was coming to them; God turned their cities to rubble no one ever found.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Giant relics that once turned wood pulp into pages of different colors.
    John Lauritsen, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • Worse, her estranged sister April (Naomi Watts), a drama queen, and hostile mother, Diane (Dianne Wiest), fly in from their Michigan hair salon to add to Sandra’s suffering.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
  • European authorities have linked Moscow to a rising number of drone incursions, sabotage incidents, cyberattacks, and other hostile acts across the continent in recent months.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2026
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
Verb
  • 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
  • According to an article in Science Advances, researchers discovered in 2026 that biased AI autocomplete proposals affected what people said and their attitudes.
    Jon Michail, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 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
  • 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
  • In some cases, opposition might amount to parochial not in my backyard — or NIMBY — concerns.
    Stefan Chavez-Norgaard, The Conversation, 20 Aug. 2026

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“Prejudiced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prejudiced. Accessed 19 Sep. 2026.

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