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prejudice
noun as in belief without basis, information; intolerance
Strongest matches
animosity, bias, bigotry, chauvinism, discrimination, enmity, injustice, intolerance, preconception, predilection, predisposition, racism, sexism, xenophobia
Strong matches
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
Weak matches
bad opinion, disrelish, foregone conclusion, jaundiced eye, misjudgment, one-sidedness, preconceived notion
verb as in influence another's beliefs without basis, information
Example Sentences
In 2024, she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant,” for calling attention to the “prejudice disabled people face and to the policies that adversely affect them.”
That time I chose to call the kids out directly in conversation - hoping it could be a learning experience to challenge their prejudices.
Together, these episodes expose how far the BBC will go to feed the emotional prejudices of elite Britain, and how hard it will strive to ignore the British voters who fund most of its budget.
"It is vital that there should be no reporting, commentary or sharing of information online which could in anyway prejudice these proceedings," he said.
Despite their enthusiasm, none of them would give their real name or show their faces on camera, underlining the stigma and cultural prejudices surrounding the ancient dance.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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