(n.) An opinion or judgment formed without due examination; prejudgment; a leaning toward one side of a question from other considerations than those belonging to it; an unreasonable predilection for, or objection against, anything; especially, an opinion or leaning adverse to anything, without just grounds, or before sufficient knowledge.
(n.) A bias on the part of judge, juror, or witness which interferes with fairness of judgment.
(n.) Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment.
(n.) To cause to have prejudice; to prepossess with opinions formed without due knowledge or examination; to bias the mind of, by hasty and incorrect notions; to give an unreasonable bent to, as to one side or the other of a cause; as, to prejudice a critic or a juryman.
(n.) To obstruct or injure by prejudices, or by previous bias of the mind; hence, generally, to hurt; to damage; to injure; to impair; as, to prejudice a good cause.
Example Sentences:
(1) What is Obama doing about the prejudice and violence faced by brown people here at home?
(2) All the same, it's hard to approach the school, which charges nearly £28,000 for boarders and nearly £19,000 for day girls and is sometimes called "the girls' Eton", without a few prejudices.
(3) As well as a portrait of Austen, the new note will include images of her writing desk and quills at Chawton Cottage, in Hampshire, where she lived; her brother's home, Godmersham Park, which she visited often, and is thought to have inspired some of her novels, and a quote from Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
(4) Irrational fear, anxiety and prejudice are not less common among health professionals than in the community generally; they require attention in HIV-related educational programs.
(5) Political policy is based on swivel-eyed assumptions and prejudices, rather than the world, evidence, the reality of suffering, the reality of global warming.
(6) It has been argued that linguistic usage pertaining to female sexuality generally is the product of a patriarchal value structure and, as such, reflects patriarchal prejudices about female sexuality.
(7) There was none of the prejudice found in much of the British press, just acceptance that it was part of the town’s civic duty to share in helping with a European-wide problem.
(8) In fact, it was Howard who first introduced a teenage Martin Amis to the delights of reading when she gave him a copy of Pride and Prejudice .
(9) Hakim is keen to stress that her thesis is "evidence based" and nothing to do with prejudice or ideology, and finishes her introduction with this rallying cry: "why not champion femininity rather than abolish it?
(10) BBC1 will also screen a three-part adaptation of PD James' Death Comes to Pemberley, the Jane Austen homage in the 200th anniversary year of Pride and Prejudice, as well as a three-part adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn and Remember Me, a ghost story by Gwyneth Hughes (Five Days, The Girl).
(11) The MPs also reject weakening the FoI law on the release of information that would prejudice collective ministerial responsibility, or inhibit the frank exchange of views within the government.
(12) Two unfortunate factors influencing the choice of drugs for clinical trial have been prejudice from the physician and commercial interests.
(13) The possible reasons for this, apart from poverty and malnutrition, are ignorance, fear and prejudice in availing themselves of public health services and reliance on bomohs and handiwomen and fatalism.
(14) Foreign aid, NHS queues, he pressed hot button prejudices, interrupted other speakers, his quick wit won both laughter and applause.
(15) Inequality, precarity and social division are the causes of our new callousness, helped by the rightwing press, but the real point is that Labour has only two choices in response: either continue to cringe before the prejudices of the public or try to change their minds by arguing for a distinct, simple and compelling alternative.
(16) And even tell them what they don't like to hear – that they bring prejudice and double standards in our own situation."
(17) Prejudice against the condom and a gap in the STOP AIDS campaign reasoning are considered as possible grounds for the resistance to the recommended condom protection.
(18) Therapists have been advised to become familiar with and sensitive to such characteristics and their manifestations and to be honest with themselves and patients about their prejudices (Sue et al.
(19) They demonstrate, at worst, a cavalier prejudice against work that the correspondents deemed shoddy.
(20) IN ORDER THAT ASIAN AMERICANS BE MORE ADEQUATELY PROVIDED WITH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, IT WILL BE NECESSARY TO: (1) have a thorough educational campaign over a long period of time to help Asians overcome their negative prejudices against mental illness, (2) devise culturally relevant diagnostic techniques, and (3) have treatment consonant with the cultural backgrounds of the patients and befitting the role expectations of the patients.
Prejudicial
Definition:
(a.) Biased, possessed, or blinded by prejudices; as, to look with a prejudicial eye.
(a.) Tending to obstruct or impair; hurtful; injurious; disadvantageous; detrimental.
Example Sentences:
(1) Not only that, it prejudicially and inaccurately links me to a terrorist attack, which the vast majority of Muslims (including myself) believe to be absolutely abhorrent and against the teachings of Islamic principles.
(2) Austin's solicitors, Christian Khan, say their client's case was hampered by highly prejudicial findings by the judge in that case, Mr Justice Tugendhat.
(3) A home secretary can deprive somebody who has dual nationality of their British passport if it is "conducive to the public good" and if they have behaved in a way that is "seriously prejudicial to the vital interests of the UK".
(4) These spinoff programmes, which target key premium audiences, are prejudicially and aggressively scheduled on other ITV channels in which STV has no economic interest."
(5) The integrity of the corneal stroma is prejudicial for the maximum effect of the EGF, in the sense that the deeper the stroma is damaged, the less EGF acts.
(6) Generally speaking therefore, given that we would not want to run the risk of prejudicing someone's right to a fair trial, it is sensible for us to maintain a situation where we restrict comments on pieces once people have been arrested because of the dangers of people posting prejudicial remarks."
(7) Although this complication of streptokinase fibrinolysis seems to be rare, clinicians should be aware of it and not confuse the allergic reaction with that of another drug, the withdrawal of which could be prejudicial for the patient.
(8) The model, "Differences + Discomforts = Discoveries," inhibits factionalizing and promotes depth of knowledge about underserved groups as well as personal awareness of prejudicial feelings.
(9) My intent was not to be prejudicial but for blacks to enjoy this freedom.
(10) In response Maguwu gave himself up and was charged with publishing falsehoods prejudicial to the economic interests of the state.
(11) Jurors were discharged following what the defence said was an "avalanche" of prejudicial media reports after the Milly verdicts, and the charge was ordered to lie on file.
(12) These viruses seems to be prejudicial to the pregnant woman and to the fetus.
(13) The cessation of reproductive function in the undernourished woman represents an adaptive phenomenon, since pregnancy would be prejudicial both to her and the fetus.
(14) But people facing persecution have a legal right to seek asylum, and the nature of their arrival is mandated in law not to be prejudicial to their claim or treatment.
(15) A press statement about the panel members said: "They were selected on the basis that they have no prejudicial interest in climate change and climate science, and for the contribution they can make to the issues of the review."
(16) Response categories lacked objective or parallel phrasing, response lists were not rotated, and the ordering of items appeared prejudicial.
(17) Essential was the fear of "degenerated" and socially harmful progeny prejudicial to the existing order.
(18) But Australia’s peak telecommunications bodies and individual telcos have raised objections, among them: Internet providers would be required to reveal details about their business decisions, internal operations and IT infrastructure; There are few, if any, limits on new powers that would allow the attorney general to shut down telecommunications services in circumstances where they are “prejudicial to security”; Providers would struggle under the cumulative weight of data retention, mandatory breach notification, copyright laws and now the latest security measures.
(19) Although there is a general agreement on the significance of pre- and perinatal risk factors in the etiology of epilepsy, the etiological relevance of individual prejudicial factors has not been clarified in detail.
(20) These findings suggest that the lifestyle specific to imprisonment might overcome the prejudicial effect of risk factors such as alcohol, tobacco, or drug abuse that tend to be common among prisoners.