as in partisan
one who stubbornly or intolerantly adheres to his or her own opinions and prejudices
an incorrigible bigot who hasn't entertained a new thought in years
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Recent Examples of bigot
Charlie Kirk is a vile bigot, and standing with him on this issue is profoundly disturbing.
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Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
The mainstream platforms are overrun with a combination of bots, bigots, and bad AI, especially because platforms such as X and Facebook have declared that the substance of what people post is of no concern to them.
—Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2025
Fascists, Stalinists, racial supremacists, and bigots of all times and places typically endorse architectural canons—that one, or any other—for similar discriminatory purposes.
—Mario Carpo, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025
And that marketing falls apart when the person at the center of it is a racist bigot.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
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Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
The mainstream platforms are overrun with a combination of bots, bigots, and bad AI, especially because platforms such as X and Facebook have declared that the substance of what people post is of no concern to them.
—Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2025
Fascists, Stalinists, racial supremacists, and bigots of all times and places typically endorse architectural canons—that one, or any other—for similar discriminatory purposes.
—Mario Carpo, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025
And that marketing falls apart when the person at the center of it is a racist bigot.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bigot
Noun
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The hearing drew a big crowd of partisans to the state Capital.—
Jessica Garrison,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Apr. 2025
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Officials also relentlessly attacked Goldberg, painting the veteran journalist as a partisan with a spotty track record.—
Brett Samuels,
The Hill,
26 Mar. 2025
Noun
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People want to get rid of religious parties, people want to put sectarians behind to build an Iraq for all Iraqis.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
22 May 2015
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Both sides insist the other initiated the initial volley of gunfire that killed four agents and six sectarians.—
Joshua Alston,
Variety,
12 Apr. 2023
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Sly had too generous a spirit to be a dogmatist.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
24 Jan. 2025
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Although not a dogmatist, Xi cares deeply about ideology and has even blamed the collapse of the Soviet Union in part on Moscow’s failure to ensure that people took Marxism-Leninism seriously.—
Joseph Torigian,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2024
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“Bigot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bigot. Accessed 16 May. 2025.
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