as in narrow
unwilling to grant other people social rights or to accept other viewpoints
most viewers were disgusted by the comments of the talk show's bigoted guest
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Recent Examples of bigoted
Denny Jong, who is Asian, of leading the crude and bigoted banter.
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Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
How long will this continue before reciting bigoted chants and bearing weapons becomes blocking Jews from buildings and harming Israeli students?
—Ellia M Torkian, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2025
The push for restorative justice Leone came to The Sacramento Bee with her story over the summer after the newspaper reported that Luther Burbank High biology teacher Alex Nguyen administered a final exam with bigoted questions to his students.
—Jennah Pendleton, Sacramento Bee, 25 Feb. 2025
But Target’s response frustrated some supporters of gay and transgender rights, who said the company caved to bigoted pressure.
—Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 19 Feb. 2025
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Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
How long will this continue before reciting bigoted chants and bearing weapons becomes blocking Jews from buildings and harming Israeli students?
—Ellia M Torkian, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2025
The push for restorative justice Leone came to The Sacramento Bee with her story over the summer after the newspaper reported that Luther Burbank High biology teacher Alex Nguyen administered a final exam with bigoted questions to his students.
—Jennah Pendleton, Sacramento Bee, 25 Feb. 2025
But Target’s response frustrated some supporters of gay and transgender rights, who said the company caved to bigoted pressure.
—Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 19 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bigoted
Adjective
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The narrow five-game spread between the top and bottom performers illustrates the relative consistency in baseline predictive ability.—
Giovanni Malloy,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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Any migrant can individually bring a claim, Harris argued, but only in Texas where they're being held, and only along narrower grounds.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The plum political prize, of course, will be deciding how congressional districts are drawn, perhaps giving this parochial court a major say in which party—and its preferred Speaker—gets to run the U.S. House.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
31 Mar. 2025
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There is nothing more parochial or bland than being a soft, white Anglican kid from Ottawa.—
Graydon Carter,
The Atlantic,
14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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There will be the usual provincial arguments about which league was actually the strongest.—
Brian Hamilton,
New York Times,
6 Apr. 2025
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This year the rebels have made significant gains, including seizing the provincial capitals of Goma and Bukavu.—
Kate Bartlett,
NPR,
3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Hellenistic culture was imperfectly tolerant; the Christian one perfectly intolerant.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
24 Mar. 2025
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The American people need to know that Lin-Manuel Miranda is intolerant of people who don't agree with him politically.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The 28-year-old from Vineland, New Jersey, took to social media and threw a prejudiced tantrum aimed at the entire country of Mexico.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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Take Stallone’s troubled Vietnam vet, Rambo, who hates prejudiced cops, duplicitous CIA agents and sadistic Soviet lieutenant colonels (not in that order).—
John DeVore,
Rolling Stone,
31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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In Italy, Putin has nurtured personal relations with the illiberal nationalist leader Matteo Salvini.—
Michael McFaul,
The Atlantic,
10 Mar. 2025
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Right now, the transnational movement of illiberal nationalism is more organized, united, and strategic in its collective actions than the liberal democratic movement.—
Michael McFaul,
The Atlantic,
10 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Some people associate a frugal spender with a narrow-minded person who is a tightwad, a cheapskate, a penny-pincher, and worse of all an outright scrooge.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
18 Jan. 2025
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People are going to take things and run with them and be narrow-minded or whatever or take something out of context.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
19 Dec. 2024
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“Bigoted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bigoted. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.
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