Bigot | Definition of Bigot by Merriam-Webster
Examples of bigot in a Sentence
"It's scandalous," he said, in the tones once used by Colonel Blimp, Britain's best-loved bigot , who adorned the pages of the Evening Standard throughout the 1930s. — Nicholas Fraser , Harper's , September 1996 A bigot is a hater, she said. A bigot hates Catholics. A bigot hates Jews. … It's no sin to be poor, she said. It is a sin to be a bigot. Don't ever be one of them. — Pete Hamill , A Drinking Life , 1994 One had always to be mindful, moreover, that being a black scholar did not exempt one from the humiliations and indignities that a society with more than its share of bigots can heap upon a black person, regardless of education … — John Hope Franklin , "John Hope Franklin: A Life of Learning," 1988 , in Race and History , 1989 He was labeled a bigot after making some offensive comments. an incorrigible bigot who hasn't entertained a new thought in years
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Recent Examples on the Web
The play’s unknown author centers a subplot on a raving bigot named Swetnam, who is fond of traducing women.
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Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2021
But that's what the GOP has embraced in Greene, a conspiracy theorist, liar and bigot who nonetheless continues to enjoy her party's support.
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Jill Filipovic, CNN, 15 June 2021
But former Archbishop of York John Sentamu, who was born in Uganda, said those who saw Philip as a bigot were wide of the mark.
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Jill Lawless, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2021
These faux-Texans who are racing to out-bigot one another are living in the past, clinging to an image of Texas from the mid-twentieth century rather than of the ethnically and economically diverse juggernaut the state has become.
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Casey Michel, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2021
Webb is not incriminated as a racist or bigot, but as a servant of bigots.
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WSJ, 15 Mar. 2021
Racial tension flares up among an ex-cop, a bigot and a black entertainer who band together to rob a bank.
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Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2021
Liberals reviled him as a hateful blowhard and a bigot.
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Stephen Collinson, CNN, 19 Feb. 2021
Liberals called him a bigot, a sexist and a partisan propagandist with a profoundly mean streak.
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Mary Mcnamara, Star Tribune, 19 Feb. 2021
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