1
as in partial
inclined to favor one side over another
an employer who is known to be prejudiced toward graduates from Ivy League schools
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2
as in narrow
unwilling to grant other people social rights or to accept other viewpoints
racially prejudiced people have existed throughout recorded history
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as in biased
to cause to have often negative opinions formed without sufficient knowledge
all the bad stories I had heard about the incoming CEO prejudiced me against him even before the first meeting
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Recent Examples of prejudiced
Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2025
Advertisement Olivet President Jonathan Park and Vice President Walker Tzeng said that the probe was racially and religiously prejudiced and was prompted by news reports from Newsweek, which university leaders claimed to be inaccurate.
—Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
The story explores the paths to reconciliation through family and focuses on reflecting the prejudiced behaviors that still exist in small towns.
—Jamie Lang, Variety, 27 Nov. 2024
This is a specifically modern issue, where fan criticism stops being constructive and instead morphs into overly negative and prejudiced attacks on products, organizations, or individuals.
—Callum Booth, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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Adjective
The sudden shift flummoxed the music industry, which had inherited a profoundly prejudiced business structure from the totalizing predation of Jim Crow.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2025
Advertisement Olivet President Jonathan Park and Vice President Walker Tzeng said that the probe was racially and religiously prejudiced and was prompted by news reports from Newsweek, which university leaders claimed to be inaccurate.
—Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
The story explores the paths to reconciliation through family and focuses on reflecting the prejudiced behaviors that still exist in small towns.
—Jamie Lang, Variety, 27 Nov. 2024
This is a specifically modern issue, where fan criticism stops being constructive and instead morphs into overly negative and prejudiced attacks on products, organizations, or individuals.
—Callum Booth, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prejudiced
Adjective
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Drone strikes have continued through the weekend despite last week's apparent progress toward a U.S.-brokered partial ceasefire, though Kyiv and Moscow appeared to have different understandings of what that would entail.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
23 Mar. 2025
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Ukraine is planning to send technical teams to discuss the details of the partial ceasefire.—
Samya Kullab,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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When this happens in the solar system, giving Earth the narrowest glimpse of the rings, it’s known as a ring plane crossing.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
26 Mar. 2025
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With this victory, Democrats maintain a narrow majority of 102-101 in the state House.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Andreas typically waits until there have been three instances of potential hostile communication before asking her friend or colleague if everything is OK.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
28 Mar. 2025
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Home to one of the world’s largest refugee populations – most of them from Afghanistan – Pakistan has not always welcomed the foreigners, subjecting them to hostile living conditions and threatening deportation over the years.—
Sophia Saifi,
CNN Money,
28 Mar. 2025
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Students were emboldened to make bigoted statements about immigrants, Muslims and other groups.—
Laura Wray-Lake,
The Conversation,
17 Mar. 2025
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The priest, Kent, and his deputy find themselves in Anadarko, Okla., where female Marshall Mamie Fossett (Jennifer Carpenter) brings out Kent's bigoted side.—
Matt Cabral,
EW.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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Hallucinations often occur when the model fills in gaps based on similar contexts from its training data, or when it is built using biased or incomplete training data.—
Anna Choi,
The Conversation,
21 Mar. 2025
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During the trial, Read’s lawyers accused Proctor of manipulating evidence and conducting a biased investigation.—
Tim Stelloh,
NBC News,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Currently the parochial vicar at St. Lucy Parish in Campbell, Rev. Pedigo formerly served as pastor at St. Julie Billiart and Our Lady of Guadalupe in San Jose.—
Sal Pizarro,
The Mercury News,
8 Mar. 2025
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At this point, any family that wants their child to attend a private school is now able to get more than $8,000 per year to pay private or parochial tuition.—
Letters to the Editor,
Orlando Sentinel,
25 Feb. 2025
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But now Miami would have to be convinced of bringing in the 31-year-old Beal, who, by picking up his $57 million player option for 2026-27, is still owed $110 million for two seasons after this one.—
Zach Harper,
The Athletic,
6 Jan. 2025
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Once and for all, you will be convinced that ranch and pickles are the perfect pairing.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
5 Jan. 2025
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In our interviews, Williams at times seemed to have a distorted understanding of what constitutes abuse.—
Ronan Farrow,
The New Yorker,
24 Mar. 2025
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The quality of the audio is very poor and distorted.—
Kevin Sabet,
Newsweek,
24 Mar. 2025
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“Prejudiced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prejudiced. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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