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
The balls provided a rare opportunity for competitors to express themselves outside of the confines of a prejudiced society and later offered education and testing as the community battled HIV/AIDS. — Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 11 May 2026 But the rich sometimes actually can face a prejudiced jury. — John Seiler, Oc Register, 9 Apr. 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
Adjective
  • How to Use French Hair Pins French hair pins are for updos, either partial or complete.
    — Calin Van Paris, InStyle, 10 Nov. 2026
  • Michael’s only daughter says she has been forced to spend her own resources to ask the court to order a partial distribution of $600 million to the heirs’ family trust as the beneficiary of Jackson’s estate.
    — Claudia Rosenbaum, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2026
Adjective
  • FinFET transistors FinFETs are transistors with narrow silicon channels shaped like upright fins rather than flat structures.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Instead of insisting on playing through pressure, defenders cleared the ball when necessary, stayed compact and protected a narrow lead.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • The ambush-style attack turned into an eight-hour standoff with law enforcement.
    — Michael McGough, Sacbee.com, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The Chiefs entered 2026 hoping to rebound from a 6-11 season and return to the Super Bowl conversation, but their loss to Denver has turned simply winning the division into a dogfight.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 5 Nov. 2026
Adjective
  • The Navy's Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewmen, known as SWCCs, are elite maritime operators training to operate high-speed, heavily armed boats that transport Navy SEALs into and out of hostile territory, along with other maritime missions.
    — James LaPorta, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Even as crime drops and car crashes recede, New York’s streets and parks have grown increasingly hostile to those who are frail, slow, disabled, or small.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 5 Nov. 2026
Adjective
  • Former broadcaster Mark Jones has posted several bigoted messages about Jokic.
    — Bobby Burack OutKick, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Bishara Bahbah, who was once in favor of the Administration, speaks with Isaac Chotiner about his disappointment in the President’s bigoted rhetoric.
    — Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Rodriguez argued that elections chief Alina Garcia was biased because of her ties to the Republican Party and her son-in-law’s representation of Salazar.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 12 Nov. 2026
  • Rodriguez had sought to kick the county’s Republican elections supervisor off the Canvassing Board ahead of the recount, arguing that elections chief Alina Garcia was biased, but a federal judge dismissed that effort.
    — Churchill Ndonwie, Sun Sentinel, 10 Nov. 2026
Adjective
  • Cary said an image of a giraffe and distorted-looking lettering caught his attention, prompting him to take the packet from his child.
    — Emma Marsden, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Its songs are littered with black holes, disasters, nuclear bombs; there are guttural screams and onslaughts of distorted guitar.
    — Marissa Lorusso, Pitchfork, 28 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • And yet, bizarrely, what seems like an entirely parochial story will surely have legs worldwide.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The pair led an aggressive recruitment effort and injected parochial, populist policy proposals into its traditionally moderate platform.
    — Spencer Kimball,Garrett Downs,Dan Mangan,Kevin Breuninger,Justin Papp, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2026

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“Prejudiced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prejudiced. Accessed 13 Nov. 2026.

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