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prejudice English

Meaning prejudice meaning

What does prejudice mean?
Definitions in simple English

prejudice Noun

— an unreasonable hatred for a group, usually a race or a religion, etc. John had prejudice against Muslims. — a belief, usually negative, that you have about something, before you know that it is actually right — an idea or preference you have towards something before you actually experience the thing

prejudice Verb

— Prejudicing means to cause a prejudice or to commit prejudiced judgement.

prejudice

— noun (= bias) a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation — verb influence (somebody's) opinion in advance — verb disadvantage by prejudice

Synonyms prejudice synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as prejudice?

prejudice English » English

bias preconception partiality preconceived opinion unfairness presupposition preoccupation harm bigotry prepossess hurt favouritism favoritism detriment damage tendency superstition stereotypes partisanship narrow-mindedness inclination discrimination discriminate differentiate aversion antipathy wrong knowledge wrong impression wrong idea violate transgress tort subjective impression strain stereotype sexism prolepsis prevention prepossession prejudice because of fear prejudgment prejudgement predisposition preconceived idea polarization polarisation plague pirate partial view parti pris

Topics prejudice topics

What do people use prejudice to talk about?
Social behavior Law Justice

Discriminate, be unfair
Language and thought Want

Influence
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Sad

Dislike

Conjugation prejudice conjugation

How do you conjugate prejudice?

prejudice · verb

Examples prejudice examples

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Simple sentences

I don't have a prejudice against foreign workers.
There is no denying the fact that no one is free from racial prejudice.
He has a prejudice against jazz.
He had a prejudice against women drivers.
Ethnic minorities struggle against prejudice, poverty, and oppression.
He has a prejudice against foreigners.
I have no prejudice.
As Tom told me, Esperanto has two enemies, ignorance and prejudice.
Free yourself from prejudice.
Every word is a prejudice.
His opinion is free from prejudice.
He has a prejudice against Jews.
Yet education is the only factor that can inhibit prejudice, be it between ethnicities or genders.
It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.
There is much undeserved prejudice against Esperanto.

Movie subtitles

Prejudice! Compromise!
An Eastern prejudice.
Do you have a prejudice against hiring honest citizens?
We're the victims of a foul disease called social prejudice, my child.
Your prejudice against weakness, your blank intolerance.
My brother says that even looks like me, but, of course, he's prejudice.
You, the most distinguished legal mind in the state, could head a committee and demand a fair trial for him, away from the prejudice of this town.
It is my duty to collect evidence, without prejudice.
I don't believe in prejudice.
Well, nothing's bigger than beating down the complacence of decent people on prejudice.
No prejudice, of course. But no job either.
Plenty of jobs here. Even for the unlucky ones. And no prejudice.
And no prejudice, please.
However, since the prosecutor lacked evidence, he's given you prejudice.
Father, without prejudice. would you say that was a friendly noise?
I protest in the name of commonsense. In the name of man who's not to be judged by stupid superstition and prejudice. Remove the witness.
Now just compare them coolly, without prejudice.
I have, it's true, a prejudice against the guillotine.
It is quite important that you answer my question without prejudice.
It's always difficult to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this.
Wherever you run into it, prejudice always obscures the truth.
Evidently you share the prejudice of your leaders.
Census figures on family income, housing, employment. survey on prejudice, police statistics.
Poverty, prejudice, bitterness, and despair.
Ignorance and prejudice reminiscent of 17th century witch-hunting.
I'm contemptuous of something you can't help or make no attempt to. Your so-called strength. Your prejudice against weakness, your blank intolerance.
I came with a prejudice. and when I saw you, you seemed strange to me.
Except that dr. Rudd, my predecessor, Had some sort of prejudice against her.
It's pure class prejudice.
So perhaps you will swallow your prejudice against a humble astrologer. whose only medical diploma is the gratitude of his patients.
By drink. by lazinedd. by pride and by prejudice. by hook and by crook.
But we must try to examine the problem without prejudice.
This whole thing is judgment by prejudice, and i resent it.
Folks'll bear your natural prejudice in mind.
You always say that you're against prejudice.

News and current affairs

Gates, deeply conscious, indeed a specialist of the terrible history of race relations in his country, instinctively assumed that he was a victim of prejudice.
But he rarely seems to act on the basis of raw sentiment or instinctive prejudice.
Elsewhere - including Europe and the United States - anti-Semitism survives among a fringe of neo-Nazis and renegades like Ellwanger, but also, more widely, in milder forms of prejudice.
In a world where anti-Semitism and racism fester, where prejudice on national, religious, colored-based, or ethnic grounds foster discrimination, that is the view that best nurtures the rights of all.
Simplistic labels reflect more prejudice than understanding.
Contrary to popular prejudice, local governments and public agencies do innovate; what is missing is a mechanism to select and disseminate innovations in the same way the market selects new products or cost-saving processes.
The Euro was not a politically expensive step to take, except in Germany where it ran into every sort of prejudice.
The CPA, and the world community, must not prejudice the outcome of their efforts by accepting a facile and bogus view of Iraqi society.
Are friendship and prejudice to rule in the EU's membership determinations, or will objective facts determine things?
They could pat themselves on the back for their lack of racial prejudice.
The absence of direct experience with people of a different culture, race, or religion leaves space for prejudice, myths, and dark rumors, reinforced by the apocalyptic rendering of the tabloid media.
And it is probably impossible for a former dictator's victims to judge him without prejudice.
Thus, one should pay tribute to the resilience of Dutch Muslims as they resist the provocations of the right-wing politician Geert Wilders, who is bent on releasing a film that can only inflame public prejudice against Islam.
Segregated schooling is a barrier to integration and produces prejudice and failure.
It is always risky to speculate about hidden motives; nevertheless, systematic disparagement of Israeli society and culture undoubtedly encourages the sense that anti-Semitism, too, is a permitted prejudice.
I myself and the other members of the Austrian Federal Government expect to be judged according to our performance rather than on the basis of prejudice.
Throngs of Chinese expatriates and students took to the streets, protesting the prejudice they perceived in Western media reports.
But it is time to recognize that repressive policies towards drug users, rooted as they are in prejudice, fear, and ideology, may be no less a threat to liberty.
Europe cannot continue to marginalize one of its own minorities; anti-Roma prejudice and unlawful discrimination must not go unchallenged.
The Alliance has promised to see the job through. So if it abandons the job now, leaving the country to poverty, prejudice, and poppies, what then will happen?
It made Europeans feel superior to Americans. They could pat themselves on the back for their lack of racial prejudice.
The American civil-rights struggle that reached its height in the 1960s fought racial prejudice and discrimination at home and opposed colonialism abroad.
These journalists' self-interested prejudice against a medium in which they are not the gatekeepers prevents them from conceding that Assange is a publisher, rather than some sort of hybrid terrorist blogger.
Above all, it enables them to think critically and question established wisdom, thereby enabling them to rise above prejudice, myth, and restrictive historical legacies.
First, we need to adopt a public health model for prevention of violence, spouse abuse, bullying, prejudice, and more that identifies vectors of social disease to be inoculated against.

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