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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bigoted
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Bigoted attitudes don't change very quickly.
▪ He believes the political right in America is becoming dangerously bigoted.
▪ Her speech included a bigoted attack on Hispanics
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was too narrow-minded and prejudiced - and bigoted.
▪ Immigrant workers, easy scapegoats for the newly reunited country's economic ills, have been the latest victims of bigoted violence.
▪ It would be narrow-minded and bigoted not to welcome these convergent developments.
▪ She had always prided herself on her tolerance and open-mindedness - how dared he call her bigoted?
▪ She was finally an extraordinarily, if at time, quite subtly, bigoted woman.
▪ This was a predominantly Protestant force which soon came to be regarded as repressive and bigoted by the Catholic minority.
▪ We're a bigoted, racist group of ox-cart reactionaries who don't know which way the wind's blowing.
▪ You're the most bigoted man I've ever met.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bigoted

Bigoted \Big"ot*ed\, 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. ``Bigoted to strife.''
--Byron.

Syn: Prejudiced; intolerant; narrow-minded.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bigoted

1640s, from bigot (q.v.).

Wiktionary
bigoted

a. Being a bigot; biased; strongly prejudiced; forming opinions without just cause. alt. Being a bigot; biased; strongly prejudiced; forming opinions without just cause.

WordNet
bigoted

adj. blindly and obstinately attached to some creed or opinion and intolerant toward others; "a bigoted person"; "an outrageously bigoted point of view"

Usage examples of "bigoted".

Jealousy of the aggrandizement of the French in the New World, mortification for their own unsuccessful efforts in that quarter, and a still stronger motive of hatred to the faith of the Huguenot, induced the bigoted Philip II of Spain to despatch Pedro Menendez de Aviles, a brave, bigoted, and remorseless soldier, to drive out the French colony, and take possession of the country for himself.

As he did not wish to be taken for a bigoted man he was scandalous, and for the sake of making people laugh he would often make use of the most disgusting expressions.

It saddened him to discover that the eldin were in their own way as bigoted as humans.

My father, you must know, is a bigoted devotee of the old school, and prides himself upon keeping up something of old English hospitality.

As I now close this long labor and send forth the result, the oppressive sense of responsibility which fills me is relieved by the consciousness that I have herein written nothing as a bigoted partisan, nothing in a petty spirit of opinionativeness, but have intended every thought for the furtherance of truth, the honor of God, the good of man.

McBride, for his part, had nothing but contempt for the narrow, bigoted, unrealizable aspirations of the IRA.

Although frequently miscomprehending the dogmas of the Mother Church, he is neither narrow nor bigoted in his religious views.

They thought, that had the bigoted religionists been able to get their heavenly charter recognized, the presbyters would soon become more dangerous to the magistrate than had ever been the prelatical clergy.

The congregation sat under one punkah and the Resident under another, both being worked by bigoted Mohammedans!

The effect of entrenched tradition, priestly directors, a bigoted, overawing, and persecuting sectarianism, is nowhere else a hundredth part so powerful or so extensive.

Some reason for this course, applicable only to the particular case, or to a class of cases under which it was ranged, was always relied upon in justification of these bitter outbreaks of intolerance, but the paragraphs in which the vituperation found vent always disclosed some bigoted principle which constituted the core of the article.

Instead of increased relations between Moors and foreigners tending to friendship, the average foreign settler or tourist is far too bigoted and narrow-minded to see any good in the native, much less to acknowledge his superiority on certain points.

England now, my friends, who would laugh in their hearts at those worthy Rechabites, and hold them to be ignorant, old-fashioned, bigoted people, for keeping up their poor, simple, temperate life, wandering to and fro with their tents and cattle, instead of dwelling in great cities, and making money, and becoming what is now-a-days called civilized, in luxury and covetousness.

The Press, the Pulpit, and the Lyceum, with rare and brave exceptions, met the formidable array of Facts with which the work bristled, by sciolistic criticisms, bigoted denunciations, or timid, faint praise.

A bigoted theologian at the end of the table seemed scandalized at the question and still more at the answer.