(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.
Russophobia
Definition:
(n.) Morbid dread of Russia or of Russian influence.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Kremlin has issued a tight-lipped response to the resignation of US national security adviser Michael Flynn , as Russian MPs and state TV suggested he was the target of a smear campaign and that his departure was evidence of Russophobia.
(2) Russophobia The Russians are rather more crude in their approach, labelling everything they don’t like as “Russophobia”.
(3) Either Trump hasn’t acquired the independence he sought and is being subsequently [and not without success] driven into a corner, or Russophobia has already struck the new administration from top to bottom.” Alexei Pushkov, a senator who was previously foreign affairs committee chairman in the lower house, tweeted : “The departure of M. Flynn is probably the earliest resignation of a president’s national security advisor in all of history.
(4) Last year the Russian culture ministry attacked the Golden Mask theatre festival as “systematically supporting performances that evidently contradict moral norms, provoke our society and contain the elements of Russophobia”, for example, while the book Flags of the World was withdrawn from the shops because an MP called its (factual) claim that Lithuania sought independence from Russian rule as “Russophobic”.
(5) Criticism from the west before the Winter Olympics in Sochi over human rights issues and widespread corruption was met with confusion and anger in Russia, where many government officials believe it was a product of "Russophobia" or a specific plot to discredit the country.
(6) He had previously accused his critics of “Russophobia”.
(7) Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has even claimed to spy a “fashion for Russophobia in certain [European] capitals”, presumably because they don’t want to roll over and condone Moscow’s aggression against Ukraine .
(8) Russian authorities want to show that Ukraine’s government, which it calls a “military junta”, is ideologically obsessed with nationalism and Russophobia.
(9) Equally, if Trump gave him nothing, Putin’s loyal media back home would brand the US president a prisoner of domestic opposition and “Russophobia” – unable to act on his more pro-Moscow instincts.
(10) La Stampa has noted pro-Russian remarks by two M5S officials, Alessandro Di Battista and Manlio Di Stefano , who have both made trips to Moscow and railed against “growing Russophobia” in the west.