racist

as in supremacist
a person who believes that one race is superior to others a racist facing hate crime charges

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Recent Examples of racist In the videos shared to Instagram, the man claiming to be Massey denied threatening Williams while also accusing prison officials of being crooked and racist. Sean Neumann, People.com, 3 June 2025 Social media grants to unhinged antisemites, racists and bigots like Ye the kind of massive global audience that Hitler’s propaganda minister Josef Goebbels could only have imagined. Jonathan A. Greenblatt, HollywoodReporter, 29 May 2025 Artwork featuring a skeleton wearing a Native American regalia and headdress is criticized by some as racist. Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 26 May 2025 This racist, sexist narrative has followed Reese from her college days. Taryn Finley, Refinery29, 20 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for racist
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Noun
  • The joke sparked a furious backlash within Shinde’s Hindu supremacist Shiv Sena political party.
    Rhea Mogul, CNN, 25 Mar. 2025
  • As Jewish Israelis have lurched further to the right, their Palestinian fellow citizens have faced unprecedented levels of persecution and abuse from an Israeli government that includes overt Jewish supremacists.
    Asad Ghanem, Foreign Affairs, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • People want to get rid of religious parties, people want to put sectarians behind to build an Iraq for all Iraqis.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 22 May 2015
  • Both sides insist the other initiated the initial volley of gunfire that killed four agents and six sectarians.
    Joshua Alston, Variety, 12 Apr. 2023

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“Racist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/racist. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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