What's the difference between bigot and iconoclast?

Bigot


Definition:

  • (n.) A hypocrite; esp., a superstitious hypocrite.
  • (n.) A person who regards his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or differing from them as unreasonable or wicked. In an extended sense, a person who is intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own, as in politics or morals; one obstinately and blindly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion.
  • (a.) Bigoted.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It shows that we still have some way to go to end bigoted banter.” The exchange was also met with disdain on Twitter.
  • (2) On the other, well, just look at the bigoted rabble.
  • (3) It's time for Mississippi and the South as a whole to stop playing small and instead demand political candidates that don't limit our potential, don't assume that we're all bigots or homophobes, and who allow us to show the world what is really happening here.
  • (4) I am of a similar vintage and, like many friends and fans of the series, bemoan the fact that we are generally treated by society as silly, weak, daft, soppy, prejudiced (even bigoted), risk-averse and wary of new situations.
  • (5) Flynn’s subsequent penchant for inflammatory, erratic and even bigoted statements left few, particularly in security circles, willing to defend him.
  • (6) It’s bigoted, racist rhetoric.” “This is an urban legend that has been going on for 14 years,” said Ryan Jacobs, a city hall spokesman.
  • (7) This replaced the words "gives the bigots a stick to beat us with, as they demand" with "leads some people to demand".
  • (8) There is nothing in this list of principles which supports labels such as “racists” and “bigots” – the labels which are so quickly attributed to Reclaim Australia’s supporters.
  • (9) But it already looks alarmingly likely to be his own 2015 version of Gordon Brown’s “bigoted woman” moment in 2010.
  • (10) In his letter to the BBC, the ambassador wrote: "The presenters of the programme resorted to outrageous, vulgar and inexcusable insults to stir bigoted feelings against the Mexican people, their culture as well as their official representative in the United Kingdom.
  • (11) Let them wallow in the content that Bolt provides them, carefully calibrated to both infuriate Australia’s dwindling bigoted minority while reassuring them.
  • (12) Many Isis fighters are newly converted, newly pious ... these men have grown a beard in three months and they don’t give Islam time to be understood.” He is tired of having to defend his religion against bigots who take these instant Islamists to be the authentic representation of Islam.
  • (13) Moir, who has won a British Press Award, made a statement defending her column late on Friday, saying it was not her intention to offend, blaming a "heavily orchestrated internet campaign" for the furore and adding that it was "mischievous in the extreme to suggest that my article has homophobic and bigoted undertones".
  • (14) He created the worst possible foundation for his RDA overhaul the day before it was announced by defending the rights of people to be bigots.
  • (15) Or a good day, actually, as he happened to be a disabled-hating bigot.
  • (16) Among other pearls of crackpot bigot wisdom, he has allegedly claimed that "black tenants smell and attract vermin."
  • (17) KL It's nothing to do with you because your paper is a load of scumbags and reactionary bigots.
  • (18) Jewish, women and LGBT – lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender – voters are rightly appalled to see the Tories co-operating with such a nasty, bigoted party.
  • (19) For what the bigots really believe by heterosexuals “breeding” heterosexuality, is that the more visible and open gay people are, the higher the likelihood people with hidden same-sex inclinations will come to believe that this is acceptable and follow suit to live and love as they wish.
  • (20) I have to deal with him every day.” Gordon Brown and Gillian Duffy Facebook Twitter Pinterest One of the most memorable on-mic blunders came during the 2010 general election campaign, when Gordon Brown was heard calling Gillian Duffy a “bigoted woman” after she confronted him about levels of immigration in Rochdale.

Iconoclast


Definition:

  • (n.) A breaker or destroyer of images or idols; a determined enemy of idol worship.
  • (n.) One who exposes or destroys impositions or shams; one who attacks cherished beliefs; a radical.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Banks, who made his money selling insurance and sees himself, like Nigel Farage, as an ex-public school iconoclast of the “liberal establishment”, is no longer just some rightwing outlier.
  • (2) In its infancy, the movement against censorship agitated on behalf of artists, iconoclasts, talented blasphemers; against repressive forces whose unpleasantness only confirmed which side was in the right.
  • (3) Described by Econsultancy as “erudite and iconoclastic”, he was recognised as tech entrepreneur of the year at the 2016 UK Business Awards.
  • (4) Though he strongly disapproved of much of what later took shape as "New Labour", which he saw, among other things, as historically cowardly, he was without question the single most influential intellectual forerunner of Labour's increasingly iconoclastic 1990s revisionism.
  • (5) On Friday in St Petersburg, Florida, the legendary pro-wrestler, whose real name is Terry Bollea, delivered a $115m legal hit on the iconoclastic web publisher, a victory that signals a significant change in the public’s tolerance for media invasions of privacy – and that could bankrupt the site.
  • (6) This autumn’s project should deliver sparks as Khan creates and performs a duet with flamenco iconoclast Galván, exploring their fascination with rhythm, gesture, pattern and myth.
  • (7) I am something of a parvenu, but we should welcome the iconoclastic and the unconventional.
  • (8) Acknowledging the contribution of sociology and social sciences to psychiatry, it is suggested that the heroic period of social psychiatry and the iconoclastic approach of sociology of mental health are over.
  • (9) On the surface, the grumpy pacifist iconoclast had little in common with the war hero author of Seven Pillars of Wisdom - apart from a weakness for inordinately long prefaces.
  • (10) In some ways no one represents this better than the iconoclastic Varoufakis, whose investiture should go down as a textbook case of what happens when radicals come into town.
  • (11) While Brand’s iconoclastic politics, urging people not to vote and to abandon conventional party politics, emerge naturally from his subversive comedy, the spirit of Izzard’s surreal improvisations are harder to find in his pursuit of a conventional political career.
  • (12) The recent case of The Jewel of Medina, a work by Sherry Jones which is neither bold nor iconoclastic, exemplifies the problem.
  • (13) In his 20s he was an iconoclastic aesthete, who learned Chinese with the great Swedish sinologist, Bernard Karlgren, in Stockholm, not out of political commitment to Mao's recent revolution, but out of love for a venerable culture of grace and simplicity which, he thought, represented the blissful antithesis of the consumerist west.
  • (14) This iconoclastic critique from the right did not change US policy but gained the keepers of Rand's flame respect and credibility, said Ghate, a Canadian of German and Indian parentage with a PhD in philosophy.
  • (15) Outraged Gehry's iconoclastic designs include the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and Maggie's Centre, a cancer daycare centre, in Dundee.
  • (16) The impresario and iconoclast Malcolm McLaren , who has died aged 64 from the cancer mesothelioma, was one of the pivotal, yet most divisive influences on the styles and sounds of late 20th-century popular culture.
  • (17) His backers, it should be noted, include such bold iconoclasts as Tessa Jowell, Lord Falconer and Alastair Campbell.
  • (18) If Christopher was louche, hedonistic and iconoclastic, Hitchens would be fastidious, puritanical and Christian.
  • (19) But Brolin said that “he came on [set] as the kind of mercurial iconoclast he is.
  • (20) These iconoclasts would happily leave behind the burden of ancient stones and get on with the church’s real mission.