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
Best-actress Oscar nominee Karla Sofía Gascón, whose awards campaign for Emilia Pérez was thrown into disarray last week by the revelation of years-old tweets widely seen as expressing bigoted views, addressed the controversy in a tearful, hourlong interview with CNN en Español on Saturday evening.
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Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Feb. 2025
According to Adams, who saw his famed cartoon cut from numerous outlets following bigoted remarks be made in 2023, the prostate cancer that has metastasized to his bones will kill him within a matter of months.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 19 May 2025
In that vein, centering a parent-child relationship like Flamingo and Lidia’s (and having several transgender aunts look out for a cisgender child by encircling her like a lion’s pride) is a stern rebuke of bigoted narratives about trans predation.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 15 May 2025
Much of that goodwill disappeared mere weeks after the nominations when enterprising X users dug up some of Gascón's old tweets which revealed a pattern of bigoted viewpoints, with disparaging comments about Islam among the most egregious.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2025
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Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Feb. 2025
According to Adams, who saw his famed cartoon cut from numerous outlets following bigoted remarks be made in 2023, the prostate cancer that has metastasized to his bones will kill him within a matter of months.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 19 May 2025
In that vein, centering a parent-child relationship like Flamingo and Lidia’s (and having several transgender aunts look out for a cisgender child by encircling her like a lion’s pride) is a stern rebuke of bigoted narratives about trans predation.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 15 May 2025
Much of that goodwill disappeared mere weeks after the nominations when enterprising X users dug up some of Gascón's old tweets which revealed a pattern of bigoted viewpoints, with disparaging comments about Islam among the most egregious.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bigoted
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For decades, international philanthropy has framed Africa through a narrow lens: a continent in need, a landscape of poverty, disaster and helplessness.—
Victoria Philips,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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Beach replenishment also is planned, but the narrow right-of-way through San Clemente includes no room for a second set of tracks.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 June 2025
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Yet somehow, all these factors, seemingly easily translatable across the world’s cuisines, has led to an intensely parochial guide.—
Tulasi Srinivas,
The Conversation,
3 June 2025
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This is a parochial political world, overshadowed by the federal bureaucracy.—
Cuneyt Dil,
Axios,
25 Nov. 2024
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Most of the smoke reaching the American Midwest has been coming from fires northwest of the provincial capital of Winnipeg in Manitoba.—
Steve Karnowski,
Chicago Tribune,
4 June 2025
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Segovia, a romantic hilltop city in the country’s largest region, Castilla y León has the Antonio Machado House-Museum, a prime example of early 1900s provincial Castillian living, named after the Spanish poet who lived there.—
Jessica Benavides Canepa,
AFAR Media,
4 June 2025
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Primroses are a bit picky and intolerant of full sun, dry weather, and extreme cold.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
4 June 2025
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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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BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, is back in business in Texas after the state removed it from a blacklist of financial firms that Republican officials deemed to be prejudiced against the oil and gas industry.—
Tim McDonnell,
semafor.com,
5 June 2025
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Caton’s attorneys filed to dismiss the charges after Oleson was disbarred from practicing law in Idaho, arguing that continuing with the case was improper and prejudiced their client.—
Kevin Fixler,
Idaho Statesman,
9 Apr. 2025
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At least since 2012, Putin has sought to build and enforce a dominant ideology built on illiberal values and historical revisionism.—
ANDREI YAKOVLEV,
Foreign Affairs,
16 May 2025
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These fissures are where Islamism leaps in to segregate, cohort, and indoctrinate with antidemocratic illiberal Islamist values forming the milieu ripe for radicalization, including terrorism and evolutionary jihad.—
Faisal Kutty,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 May 2025
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The inherent orthodoxy of his premise excluded all other alternatives to narrow-minded rationalism and its ethical constraints.—
Jonathon Keats,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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Of the trio, Bernadette was written as the strictest rule-follower — possibly even the most narrow-minded.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
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