How to Use discriminatory in a Sentence

discriminatory

adjective
  • The law prohibits discriminatory hiring practices.
  • The reestablishment of White rule in the South soon led to a wave of discriminatory new laws.
    — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Democrats said that part of the bill would be discriminatory.
    — Jim Saunders, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The suit argued that the law was both discriminatory and vague.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The Supreme Court ruled that job transfers don't have to include a change in rank or pay to be deemed discriminatory.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2024
  • The danger is not so much the act of overturning a city ordinance, as that could be a good thing in the case of a discriminatory law.
    — Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 10 Feb. 2024
  • All of the parents said the treatment of their sons was unfair and discriminatory.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The nipple heel is an I-gotcha-shoe, something to flick your nose at the discriminatory height rules of the Cannes Film Festival.
    — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2025
  • What’s more, the Court said that, even if there were a discriminatory motive, the plaintiff should still lose if the same thing would have happened in its absence.
    — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • Last year, Idaho became the first state to pass one of these discriminatory statutes, which has since been challenged in court.
    — Paul Newberry, Star Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021
  • Last year, Idaho became the first state to pass one of these discriminatory statutes, which has since been challenged in court.
    — Paul Newberry, ajc, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Gaiser said that the court should still make clear that the burden can’t solely be on the employer to show why an act wasn’t discriminatory.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Young in issuing his ruling in the spring agreed the plan was not discriminatory.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2021
  • Some locals spoke out against the campaign to the BBC, finding the campaign's target of British males discriminatory.
    — Kristine Parks, Fox News, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The custom, then, was seen as discriminatory and even ageist.
    — Christian Allair, Vogue, 7 July 2021
  • With a spike in hate crimes and waves of discriminatory policies, the marginalized were not fragile for pointing out the dangers to their being.
    — Yangyang Cheng, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Decades of discriminatory practices have led to loss of land and livelihood for many Black farmers.
    — Amanda Albee, Dallas News, 28 Apr. 2021
  • By not taking the case, the Supreme Court let stand a ruling from an appeals court in Virginia that found the policy was discriminatory.
    — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Chu ruled the strike was not discriminatory and noted two Asian women were already on the jury.
    — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2021
  • At the time, Wilkinson said the district’s dress code was discriminatory.
    — NBC News, 21 Apr. 2021
  • In March, Brody threw out a civil rights lawsuit that claimed the practice is discriminatory.
    — Maryclaire Dale and Michelle R. Smith, Chron, 14 May 2021
  • In March, Brody threw out a civil rights lawsuit that claimed the practice is discriminatory.
    — Maryclaire Dale and Michelle R. Smith, Star Tribune, 14 May 2021
  • The memorandum, first posted on the West Point subreddit and then on X, has drawn ire from some who feel the ban is discriminatory.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, TIME, 5 Feb. 2025
  • The court also said plaintiffs challenging the voting maps hadn’t proven their claims that the districts were discriminatory on the basis of race.
    — Alexa Corse, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2022
  • The series points out discriminatory language in news coverage of the food and water shortages at the time.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The high court said at the time that allegedly discriminatory voting laws could be challenged after they were put in place.
    — Cayla Harris, San Antonio Express-News, 1 July 2021
  • Money began to pour in from the big banks looking to fulfill their post-Floyd promises to make right decades of discriminatory practices.
    — Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
  • That doesn't have to prove intent; rather, just the result of a law or policy or map being discriminatory.
    — Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 July 2025
  • British employers were the most discriminatory in the study, which also looked at Norway, Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands.
    — Amit Katwala, Wired, 22 Aug. 2021
  • Those schools miss out on tens of millions of dollars because of discriminatory requirements, the suit said.
    — Collin Binkley, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025

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