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
Bea and Patience carry the show, while the rest of the ensemble is just sort of there, not really adding much, aside from Bea’s obnoxious and bigoted subordinate (played by Nathan Welsh) who is dismissive and sneering about Patience, both to her face and behind her back.
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Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2025
Tanenhaus dwells on the bigoted views of Buckley’s father and Buckley’s editorials in the 1950s favoring segregation.
—The Editors, National Review, 2 June 2025
Last month, lawmakers and Jewish groups criticized Wilson for her history of antisemitic, bigoted social media posts and public commentary before joining the Trump administration.
—Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 25 Apr. 2025
Despite this ostensible colonization of trans bodies, Céspedes trains his camera on the inherent humanity of all his subjects, including his most bigoted aggressors.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 15 May 2025
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Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2025
Tanenhaus dwells on the bigoted views of Buckley’s father and Buckley’s editorials in the 1950s favoring segregation.
—The Editors, National Review, 2 June 2025
Last month, lawmakers and Jewish groups criticized Wilson for her history of antisemitic, bigoted social media posts and public commentary before joining the Trump administration.
—Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 25 Apr. 2025
Despite this ostensible colonization of trans bodies, Céspedes trains his camera on the inherent humanity of all his subjects, including his most bigoted aggressors.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 15 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bigoted
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But its critics say EA continues to make narrow and curious choices that neglect both systemic issues and the complexly human reasons people give, as a battle for billions rages on.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
24 July 2025
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Greene’s characterization of a ‘narrow audience’ echoes this.—
Matthew Carey Salyer,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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South suburban committee members, meanwhile, showed parochial loyalty to Kelly.—
Rick Pearson,
Chicago Tribune,
19 July 2025
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In a chamber fraught with parochial interests and personalities in spades, the sprint to finish this by the July 4 holiday is going to be clipped.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
22 May 2025
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Bashir also encourages the use of solar power, helping clients navigate provincial subsidies and designing homes with electrical systems that can easily accommodate solar panel installations or solar roof tiles.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
19 July 2025
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One local Druze man told me on Tuesday that artillery was raining down on the provincial capital, and that kidnappings and gun battles were taking place across the area.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
18 July 2025
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Although many enjoy the company of other dogs, some are intolerant of them.—
Lisa Bloch,
Mercury News,
22 July 2025
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Through careful assessments, Miller and Afrin found that people most likely to have mast cell activation syndrome were also highly likely to be chemically intolerant.—
Kate Raphael,
Discover Magazine,
23 June 2025
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The tweets, which NASL argues prejudiced jurors, came after NASL was denied D2 recognition.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
13 May 2025
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When children were told a story about new pupils at a fictional school and asked to recount the story later, there were significant differences in what the most prejudiced children remembered, as opposed to the most liberal children.—
Matt Richtel,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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The rise of chauvinistic, illiberal parties and movements is an international phenomenon.—
Gershom Gorenberg,
The Atlantic,
30 May 2025
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Today, the most obvious examples of this backsliding can be found in Asia, where an increasingly assertive China is attempting to redraw the regional rules of the road, and in Europe, where Russian rubles and wan Western politicians have helped prompt the rise of illiberal parties.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
3 Mar. 2025
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Its opposite—illiberal—means stingy, narrow-minded, intolerant, provincial, unenlightened, and using government to insure the flourishing of only the few.—
Harper’s Magazine,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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That is something that has always struck me as strange and narrow-minded.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 June 2025
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“Bigoted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bigoted. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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