Prejudiced
['predʒədɪst] or ['prɛdʒədɪst]
Definition
(adj.) being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand; 'a prejudiced judge' .
(adj.) emanating from a person's emotions and prejudices .
Editor: Lucia--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Prejudice
Editor: Moll
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Biassed, bigoted, wedded to an opinion.
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Examples
- She was audaciously prejudiced in my favour, and quite unable to understand why I should have any misgivings, or be low-spirited about it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- A great many persons are prejudiced against hair oils, but they have been used for ages, and will continue to be used. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- There never was a community so prejudiced against the cholera as these Neapolitans are. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I am not prejudiced. Jane Austen. Emma.
- You are quite prejudiced against Mr. Thornton, Margaret. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Leave the prejudiced old Scotchman; go away. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I will not deny, but I have no unaccommodating prejudiced habits. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- If that unlucky letter has prejudiced her against him, go at once, and tell her that he has cleared himself in your eyes and in mine. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- That has always prejudiced me against that kind of ceremonial and folly. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Some of them--I only say this to you--are a little proud, a little prejudiced. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- True, she was sadly prejudiced, and very ignorant; but that was to be expected from her southern breeding. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I had a feeling that she wished me away: that she did not understand me or my circumstances; that she was prejudiced against me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Helstone also is proud and prejudiced. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Was he prejudiced against the race of lawyers? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- If our conversation shouldn't lead to anything, I am to be as I was and am not to be prejudiced in my situation or worldly prospects. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Perhaps my own secretions being all wrong together, I am a little prejudiced on the subject. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The reception of this person in the hall of Cedric the Saxon, was such as might have satisfied the most prejudiced enemy of the tribes of Israel. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- That is as you take him; but then I know Creespeen has prejudiced you against me. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Of neither Darcy nor Wickham could she think without feeling she had been blind, partial, prejudiced, absurd. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The prejudiced public had stood out against it obstinately. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I never saw anybody so prejudiced. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- But I should inform you Mr. Helstone is somewhat prejudiced against me at present. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It may be thought that I am prejudiced. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Gibbon was strongly prejudiced against Christianity, and here he seems disposed to minimize the fortitude and sufferings of the Christians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She thought Catherine came from very good people and that prejudiced her in her favor finally. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I especially choose the lawyer, because he is strongly prejudiced against us. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- If their praise is censure, your censure may be praise, for they are not more undiscerning, than you are prejudiced and unjust. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- We are both prejudiced; you against, I for him; and we have no chance of agreeing till he is really here. Jane Austen. Emma.
- We rebuked him severely for this remark and said we never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Mr. Rowland Rochester was not quite just to Mr. Edward; and perhaps he prejudiced his father against him. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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