prejudice

Definition for prejudice

noun as in belief without basis, information; intolerance

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animosity, bias, bigotry, chauvinism, discrimination, enmity, injustice, intolerance, preconception, predilection, predisposition, racism, sexism, xenophobia

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ageism, antipathy, apartheid, aversion, contemptuousness, detriment, disgust, dislike, displeasure, illiberality, mindset, narrow-mindedness, partiality, pique, prejudgment, prepossession, repugnance, revulsion, slant, spleen, tilt, twist, umbrage, unfairness, warp

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bad opinion, disrelish, foregone conclusion, jaundiced eye, misjudgment, one-sidedness, preconceived notion

verb as in influence another's beliefs without basis, information

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bias, distort, harm, hinder, impair, poison, predispose, prejudge, skew, slant, sway, undermine, vitiate

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angle, bend, blemish, color, damage, dispose, hurt, incline, indoctrinate, injure, jaundice, mar, prepossess, spoil, twist, warp

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If the court declines to grant an acquittal, his attorneys argued that a new trial is required due to "severe spillover prejudice from reams of inflammatory evidence".

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Disclosing the report now, officials contended, “would prejudice the prospective seismic retrofit project solicitation process.”

From Los Angeles Times

We define misogyny as hatred, prejudice or hostility directed toward women as a group.

From Salon

“I think Black people feel the same prejudice that white people feel.”

From Salon

He added that comments on social media by the group, which has made allegations of prejudice against the community, had upset a lot of people in the area.

From BBC

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