How to Use bigotry in a Sentence
bigotry
noun- A deeply ingrained bigotry prevented them from even considering the counterarguments.
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Steele fears for her safety, fully aware of bigotry and violence against trans people who are simply trying to live their lives.
— Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 12 Sep. 2024 -
There's a reason why so many stars stay silent in the face of bigotry.
— Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023 -
And there’s been an increase in overt bigotry here of late.
— Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2023 -
Foxx’s salty reading of Bunker-style bigotry struck a chord, and the show had a healthy six-season run.
— Chris Morris, Variety, 6 Dec. 2023 -
The family achieved success in the face of bigotry, Noel said.
— Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023 -
There’s the coldness of bigotry and the heartbreak of alienation and confusion — and the warmth of love and support.
— Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2021 -
As a Black man in America, there is no room for bigotry or hate speech.
— Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 28 Nov. 2022 -
No one group or faith owns a monopoly on the oldest form of bigotry.
— Micha Danzig, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2021 -
To avoid reckoning with bigotry in beloved books is the coward's way out.
— David M. Perry, CNN, 28 Sep. 2021 -
Despite the title, the bigotry wasn’t aimed at any one nation, but instead to Asians as a whole.
— Tribune News Service, cleveland, 4 Sep. 2021 -
This is how polite people used to think about and talk through bigotry against Jews and all Others.
— Armond White, National Review, 28 June 2023 -
She was called racial slurs and faced hateful bigotry from her classmates.
— Leah Campano, Seventeen, 29 Nov. 2022 -
Race is one of the core things utilized by bad actors to fuel hatred and bigotry.
— Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2024 -
The textbooks taught in our schools are full of hate, such as bigotry toward the Baha’i faith and the promotion of terrorism.
— Hossein Ronaghi, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2021 -
Growing sick and tired — as my mom and grandmom would say — of the bulls--- and giving false equivalence to the bigotry, lies and hatred.
— Washington Post, 15 June 2021 -
Jackson has not been charged with a hate crime, but Solis believes his killing stemmed from bigotry.
— Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 13 July 2023 -
The paper issued a correction about the factual errors, but not the root of the issue: the bigotry.
— Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2021 -
There were the leaked emails of Jon Gruden and Bruce Allen that covered pretty much every square in bigotry bingo.
— Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2022 -
Having a prom without any bigotry or even simply a fear of it is a big deal to Mujica.
— Scott Luxor, sun-sentinel.com, 30 Sep. 2021 -
This story sounds like the makings of a TV miniseries about corruption, bigotry and two dads who learned how to fight back.
— Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2023 -
Many Corbin residents have worked hard in recent years to overcome the town’s legacy of bigotry.
— Jason Kyle Howard, The New Republic, 25 June 2023 -
And of course, in its pointed variant, as an icon of American hatred and bigotry.
— Longreads, 26 Jan. 2024 -
To add insult to injury, both of these writers often spoke out against bigotry.
— Anjali Enjeti, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2022 -
The two had both moved from the United States to France in their young adult years in hopes of escaping bigotry and violence, a fact that was to support the spine of the story.
— Brooklyn White, Essence, 6 May 2022 -
Anti-Catholic bigotry that was rampant in America at the time of Coyle’s slaying, Davies said.
— Greg Garrison | , al, 11 Aug. 2023 -
As for the motivation, it’s not just bigotry that drives a person to commit a mass shooting, the experts said.
— Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2022 -
Grassley should be called out and corrected for his bigotry.
— Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2021 -
They have been replaced by grievance, fear, bigotry, and hatred.
— Letters To The Editor, Hartford Courant, 27 July 2024 -
Our own beaches and pools hosted their share of bigotry and exclusion.
— BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2021
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