(a.) Obstinately and blindly attached to some creed, opinion practice, or ritual; unreasonably devoted to a system or party, and illiberal toward the opinions of others.
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.
Hidebound
Definition:
(a.) Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; -- said of an animal.
(a.) Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth; -- said of trees.
(a.) Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly conservative.
(a.) Niggardly; penurious.
Example Sentences:
(1) Osborne would like some of that conservative approach imported into the UK, while at the same time ensuring that the banks are not so hidebound by new capital requirements that credit is choked off.
(2) Whether it is a fault of Britain's hidebound business environment or a reflection of where Branson sees a money-making opportunity, many of the tycoon's UK ventures have involved close interaction with the government of the day, from seeking ministerial backing for Heathrow landing slots to buying Northern Rock from the state for £747m.
(3) The Tory government, and the business secretary in particular, are so hidebound by their restrictive economic orthodoxy that they have allowed this problem to fester and they are even now reluctant to do what is necessary to save our steel industry.
(4) The all too obvious danger is that the Burmese military, fearful of losing its privileges, hidebound by a narrow view of national security, and feeling it has already achieved its aim of balancing strong Chinese influence by bringing other countries into play, will sideline or discard her.
(5) Rather, they had the appearance of old, hidebound minds, flipping between strident arrogance and looking as if they are scared out of their wits: no friends of the brave, fragile people at the cutting edge of the economy, who will just have to toil on regardless.
(6) In reality, he has broken with tradition by accepting scores of urgent questions (and there was another one on Monday, too) to fulfil his promise of making sure that parliament is not too hidebound by procedures to debate live issues of controversy.
(7) Extrapulmonary thoracic restriction ("hidebound chest") has not been previously reported to complicate EF.
(8) But I won't hold my breath in expectation that such a hidebound industry will wake up on this.
(9) For 70 years now, this network and its orchestras have been more innovative and less hidebound than their reputations deserve.
(10) Such is what passes for “accountability” in the hidebound, medieval and largely self-serving Catholic hierarchy.
(11) One of the most striking clinical findings has been scleroderma-like skin disease manifesting as diffuse fasciitis or hidebound induration.
(12) These studies indicate that the major defect responsible for the hidebound skin lesions of scleroderma may be decreased collagenase activity.
(13) Balls and his team deserve credit for moving into territory that more hidebound Labour people must find rather uncomfortable.
(14) South Africa did not return to the Olympics – or to other international sporting competition, once even the hidebound likes of rugby and cricket had cottoned on – until 1992, when apartheid fell.
(15) That is wrong.” Varoufakis, who has described himself as an “accidental economist”, is the first to say he is not hidebound by ideology.
(16) So it may be a surprise that the first signs of resistance to Trump’s program are from that famously cautious, hidebound institution, the Federal Reserve .
(17) Your audience will expect a) lots of Sky-at-20 propaganda; b) criticisms of hidebound regulators; c) mockery of ITV; d) mockery of pay-TV rivals; e) praise of the free market as on the side of consumers.
(18) "Because of where he's come from, he's not hidebound by the conventions of contemporary film-making.
(19) The big labor unions have been fighting their hidebound reputations, but with their falling membership rolls they’ve needed to recruit warm bodies.
(20) Affected neonatal calves were unable to rise and had intention tremors, hidebound skin, slightly domed calvaria, slight prognathism, and narrow palpebral fissures.