bigoted

[ big-uh-tid ]

adjective

1. utterly intolerant of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own.

Other Words From

• bigot·ed·ly adverb
• non·bigot·ed adjective
• non·bigot·ed·ly adverb
• un·bigot·ed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of bigoted¹

First recorded in 1635–45; bigot + -ed ³

Synonym Study

See intolerant.

Example Sentences

Highsmith was brilliant, eccentric, but “bigoted, obsessed and intolerant,” Richard Bradford wrote in “The Daily Mail.”

From Washington Blade

For though Archie is unpleasant and bigoted, he is essentially a decent man, the head of a close-knit family who loves his wife and daughter, tolerates his son-in-law, and struggles with his inability to understand the upheavals in society.

From Time

In both Discord and Clubhouse, the in-group culture—nerdy gamers in Discord’s case, overconfident venture capitalists for Clubhouse—have led to instances of groupthink that can be off-putting at best and bigoted at worst.

From MIT Technology Review

Why did Politico give “its biggest platform” to a pundit with “a long history of bigoted and incendiary commentary, particularly in the aftermath of last week’s violence,” one Politico reporter posted on an internal messaging platform.

From Washington Post

Previously, Americans who held bigoted views felt at least some pressure to keep those opinions to themselves.

From Washington Blade

The Hannity-esque delusion of a post-racial America is ill-informed at best and bigoted at worst.

From The Daily Beast

Many in the LGBT community have largely written off conservative religious people as simply bigoted.

From The Daily Beast

But there are many people who have lost their jobs because of publicly being bigoted, strange, or inappropriate.

From The Daily Beast

People ask and say silly, inappropriate, and bigoted things constantly on the Internet.

From The Daily Beast

There was a time when the bigoted, Bible-thumping crowd ran roughshod over D.C. Now, not so much.

From The Daily Beast

We were approaching a large town of bigoted people, wondering how we should secure an opening for our message.

From Project Gutenberg

There are the narratives of the Spanish conquerors, especially of Pizarro's chaplain, Valverde, an ignorant bigoted fanatic.

From Project Gutenberg

He refused to kneel, and was punished with great cruelty by the bigoted and intolerant House.

From Project Gutenberg

No conservatism in the world is so bigoted as American conservatism; no democracy so intense.

From Project Gutenberg

The collision in the drama is not at all between "bigoted churchmanship" and evangelicalism, but between irreligion and religion.

From Project Gutenberg

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