bigoted

adjective

big·​ot·​ed ˈbi-gə-təd 

: blindly devoted to some creed, opinion, or practice

… Mr. Harding himself was not a bigoted man on points of church doctrine …

—Anthony Trollope

especially : having or showing an attitude of hatred or intolerance toward the members of a particular group (such as a racial or ethnic group)

bigoted comments/opinions

… early reports of Haitian and poor black voters turned away from polls by bigoted cops.

—Franklin Foer

… the December press conference at which the famously bigoted and anti-Semitic minister, fresh from a "near-death" bout with prostate cancer, proclaimed himself a changed man.

—Neal Pollack

bigotedly adverb

Whether you are religious, or bigotedly irreligious, or neither, you will find it disturbing in the best possible sense …

—A. N. Wilson

Synonyms

• illiberal
• intolerant
• narrow
• narrow-minded
• prejudiced
• small-minded

Examples of bigoted in a Sentence

most viewers were disgusted by the comments of the talk show's bigoted guest

Recent Examples on the Web

No one else with direct access to the president has been as outwardly bigoted. —Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2025

Alas, when Roseanne Barr, who was warned to stay off social media, hit send on a bigoted tweet, she was removed from her own show. —Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 26 Mar. 2025

Andrew Tate—a social media influencer who is shockingly popular amongst young boys, whose content is blatantly bigoted and sexist—was mentioned frequently by the teachers within the study. —Mark Travers, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025

The rationale for that law was bigoted, but its effect ended up being broad. —Robert Petkoff Krish Seenivasan Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1660, in the meaning defined above