(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.
Partisan
Definition:
(n.) An adherent to a party or faction; esp., one who is strongly and passionately devoted to a party or an interest.
(n.) The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.
(n.) Any member of such a corps.
(a.) Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party; as, blinded by partisan zeal.
(a.) Serving as a partisan in a detached command; as, a partisan officer or corps.
(n.) A kind of halberd or pike; also, a truncheon; a staff.
Example Sentences:
(1) The data indicate greater legitimacy and openness in discussing holocaust-related issues in the homes of ex-partisans than in the homes of ex-prisoners in concentration camps.
(2) The breakdown of answers to both questions revealed a significant partisan divide depending on people’s voting intention, with Labor supporters much more likely than Coalition backers to see the commission as a political attack and Heydon as conflicted.
(3) This proposal is a purely partisan move that will backfire on the government disastrously.” The Green party accused Osborne of making “efforts to limit the democratic scrutiny of his austerity agenda”.
(4) Obama expressed a hope that the decision by Republican House speaker John Boehner to allow moderates in his party to vote with Democrats to end the shutdown may herald a new era of bi-partisan co-operation in the House of Representatives .
(5) It would be much better for Israel to enjoy bi-partisan high level support."
(6) The RIBA is not only a deeply respected and non-partisan trade body it is also the voice of the architecture industry,” he said.
(7) "Governor let me in, I wanna be your friend, there'll be no partisan divisions," the Boss sang.
(8) The group insists it is "an independent, non-partisan Scottish think-tank, research organisation and educational charity".
(9) Republicans were under pressure not to dwell on Clinton’s use of a private email server as too zealous an attack could come off as partisan.
(10) The reaction has been no different from the theories floated in Peter Schweizer’s book, with campaign officials pointing to the author’s background at conservative thinktanks to frame him as highly partisan.
(11) This is no time for partisan politics | Simon Jenkins Read more Downing Street has also hinted that the 1% cap on public sector pay increases could be lifted in the autumn budget, after a growing number of Tory MPs aired their concerns about the policy continuing.
(12) He wrote: “The NHS in Wales will not be the victim of any Conservative party ploy to drag its reputation through the mud for entirely partisan political purposes.
(13) Most repulsively of all, while rehabilitating convicted Nazi war criminals, the state prosecutor in Lithuania – a member of the EU and Nato – last year opened a war crimes investigation into four Lithuanian Jewish resistance veterans who fought with Soviet partisans: a case only abandoned for lack of evidence.
(14) Another book, Unequal Democracy , by American political scientist Larry Bartels, goes a step further and shows how policy choices are shaped when the system is dominated by the partisan ideology of the wealthiest.
(15) He is neglecting his primary, non-partisan role as the guardian of the constitution.’’ The law also enforces delays of three to six months between the time a request for a ruling is made and a verdict, compared with two weeks at present.
(16) Triggs appeared before a Senate estimates committee hearing on Tuesday for the first time since the prime minister, Tony Abbott, argued the commission’s inquiry into children in detention was a “blatantly partisan, politicised exercise” or a “stitch-up” against the Coalition government.
(17) Issues like tax reform stir up too many powerful lobbies, so "the only way of doing it is to take it out of a partisan fight between right and left, construct a platform of shared national purpose and make our system competitive in the new global economy."
(18) Mussolini and his mistress hung upside down in Milan by Italian partisans.
(19) Nor can it be defined as partisan or political activity."
(20) The first is a national democratic decision with generational implications for all of us; the second a partisan psychodrama.