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Person who's intolerant of different beliefs
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bigot
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context derogatory English) One who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices. 2 One who is strongly partial to one's own group (e.g. religion, race, gender, political party, etc.) and is intolerant of those ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "sanctimonious person, religious hypocrite," from French bigot (12c.), which is of unknown origin. Earliest French use of the word is as the name of a people apparently in southern Gaul, which led to the now-doubtful, on phonetic grounds, theory ...
Usage examples of bigot.
Jones, who we yesterday characterized as a no-good, racist, homophobe, sexist bigot, is in fact none of these things.
Trent Lott-like editorials demanding that the pathetic Neanderthal, homophobic bigot be drummed right out of the human race.
What business did someone who sympathized with a cross-burning bigot have sitting on the second highest court in the land?
The second was a seventeen-year-old who was the ringleader of the gang, a vile bigot who earlier had fired a shot into the home of the couple.
Sachs the street cop with wire thoroughly enjoyed hearing the vicious bigot squeal like a pig as she sprayed him again.
The King of Naples was a bigot and a tyrant, a man of obstinate will, and he exhibited a fierce hatred to both civil and religious liberty.
Most of the time he liked him, felt quite fond of him in fact, but there were other times when he saw him as a narrow bigot, a stick-in-the-mud, who would not give an inch towards progress.
You were a closet bigot for years, using the minorities for votes only, and now your agents and troops are running around the country, knocking people in the head, taking their weapons from them.
I went on the offensive, you pompous bigot, just like you would have done in the same situation.
His habits, moreover, were irreproachable, and in all things connected with religion, although no bigot, he was of the greatest strictness, and, admitting everything as an article of faith, nothing appeared difficult to his conception.
The teacher of embroidery, an old bigot, who at first appeared not to mind the attachment I skewed for Angela, got tired at last of my too frequent visits, and mentioned them to the abbe, the uncle of my fair lady.
This Fleming, who left me only for one hour in the morning, to go--at least he said so-to church to perform his devotions, made a bigot of me!
Even traditionalist religious leaders and respected conservative social commentators regularly get called bigots for doing nothing more than upholding the tenets of their faith.
I wonder if David Westin would be so Swiss if someone had asked what he thought about what those vicious white bigots in Texas did to James Byrd, dragging him to his death from the back of a pickup truck?
Even though not all reporters and editors were bigots, at some level they saw blacks as different, as alien, as more dangerous, as out of the mainstream and, of course, as inferior.