How to Use discriminatory in a Sentence

discriminatory

adjective

• The law prohibits discriminatory hiring practices.
• Democrats said that part of the bill would be discriminatory.
  — Jim Saunders, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2023
• The suit argued that the law was both discriminatory and vague.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2023
• The danger is not so much the act of overturning a city ordinance, as that could be a good thing in the case of a discriminatory law.
  — Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 10 Feb. 2024
• All of the parents said the treatment of their sons was unfair and discriminatory.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Aug. 2023
• What’s more, the Court said that, even if there were a discriminatory motive, the plaintiff should still lose if the same thing would have happened in its absence.
  — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Some locals spoke out against the campaign to the BBC, finding the campaign's target of British males discriminatory.
  — Kristine Parks, Fox News, 3 Apr. 2023
• By not taking the case, the Supreme Court let stand a ruling from an appeals court in Virginia that found the policy was discriminatory.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2023
• Money began to pour in from the big banks looking to fulfill their post-Floyd promises to make right decades of discriminatory practices.
  — Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
• Sherrill Farrell, one of the five plaintiffs in the suit against the Pentagon over discriminatory discharges.
  — Jessica Kegu, CBS News, 8 Aug. 2023
• TikTok has pushed back against the contention that its platform is used to spread discriminatory content.
  — Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 7 Dec. 2023
• The lawyers said Johnson reported the discriminatory conduct to Hoyle and her deputy, Duke Shepard.
  — oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2023
• When asked if outright ban is harmful to transgender athletes, McCarthy noted that the law is not meant to be discriminatory or an act of hate — merely a way to keep sports fields equal.
  — Cami Mondeaux, Washington Examiner, 20 Apr. 2023
• This is not the first time the district has been sued over allegations that its policy is discriminatory against Black students.
  — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2023
• The lawsuit brought by the parents argues that the law is discriminatory and violates their rights as parents, the Texas Tribune reported.
  — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 13 July 2023
• The laws, which lowriders describe as discriminatory, have long prevented them from parading their cars without the fear of being cited or towed.
  — Livia Albeck-Ripka, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• But implicit-bias training might have no impact and might even worsen discriminatory care, the report found.
  — Ronnie Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 2024
• For many of these women, the reception back home felt equally discriminatory.
  — Hope Hodge Seck, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Mar. 2023
• The company said a statement that only a small number of its employees engaged in the discriminatory practices.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2023
• Many Gilroy residents have voiced their support for the restaurant, claiming that the decision to remove the parklet was unfair and discriminatory since another parklet in the area has been allowed to remain standing.
  — Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 5 Jan. 2024
• On top of being discriminatory and harmful, the Texas Department of Agriculture's new dress code policy is also a waste of time, Klosterboer said.
  — Jonathan Edwards The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 30 Apr. 2023
• On top of being discriminatory and harmful, the Texas Department of Agriculture’s new dress code policy is also a waste of time, Klosterboer said.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
• Credit scores have long been viewed by critics as arbitrary—mostly because there are so many factors that affect them —and some people even view them as discriminatory.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024
• And now, a new bill seeks to create a less discriminatory hair-care inventory at prison canteens in California.
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 25 Jan. 2024
• Members argued that the affirmative action policies at the schools were discriminatory against white and Asian students.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 29 June 2023
• Their families sued the district in May 2020, and a federal judge later ruled the district's hair policy was discriminatory.
  — CBS News, 11 Oct. 2023
• But the reactions online have been a mixed bag, with some folks equating it to disallowing pets and others thinking the rule is discriminatory and a major breach of personal freedoms.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 22 June 2023
• In both cases, federal judges in lower courts have already found the states’ policies discriminatory.
  — Aliyya Swaby, ProPublica, 14 Sep. 2023
• That could relate to excessive use of force, racially-biased policing, and discriminatory stops and searches.
  — Sanya Mansoor, Time, 27 July 2023
• Could the chatbot rank potential hires based on that discriminatory metric?
  — Tiffany Hsu, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024