Bigotry
['bɪgətrɪ] or ['bɪɡətri]
Definition
(n.) The state of mind of a bigot; obstinate and unreasoning attachment of one's own belief and opinions, with narrow-minded intolerance of beliefs opposed to them.
(n.) The practice or tenets of a bigot.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Prejudice, intolerance, blind zeal.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Prejudice, Pharisaism, obstinacy, credulity, fanaticism, intolerance,superstition
ANT:Liberality, charity, enlightenment, toleration, eclecticism, latitudinarianism
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Examples
- Bigotry is an odd thing. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Maria was very hard on his bigotry. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- These exercises and the gout released a bigotry in Charles that had been hitherto restrained by considerations of policy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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