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xenophobic

adjective as in racist

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Public health experts called it “xenophobic, cruel, and unlawful” and demanded it be rescinded.

These distinctive chirps, which pups learn when they’re young, help the mostly blind, xenophobic rodents discern who belongs, strengthening the bonds that maintain cohesion in these highly cooperative groups.

I could choose to focus on politicians who use cheap rhetoric to advance a xenophobic agenda.

Those who disagreed were dismissed as xenophobic and unsophisticated.

He was criticized up and down, left and right for being intolerant, for being bigoted, for being xenophobic.

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“The movie is totally xenophobic and brutal against the Turks,” he tells me.

They want to challenge what they see as an increasingly xenophobic continent.

Did Geert Wilders, the famously xenophobic Dutch politician, crib from the Nazis for his latest anti-immigrant tirade?

Oh, and their attitudes towards Arabs and promised land are even more insular and xenophobic than most settlers.

We are almost certainly hard coded to be xenophobic, which is why hunter gatherers often have such extraordinary homicide rates.

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On this page you'll find 94 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to xenophobic, such as: biased, bigoted, dictatorial, disdainful, dogmatic, and fanatical.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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