Crossword clues for prejudiced
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prejudice \Prej"u*dice\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prejudiced; p. pr. & vb. n. Prejudicing.] [Cf. F. pr['e]judicier. See Prejudice, n.]
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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.
Suffer not any beloved study to prejudice your mind so far as to despise all other learning.
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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.
Seek how may prejudice the foe.
--Shak
Wiktionary
Having prejudices. v
(en-past of: prejudice)
WordNet
adj. emanating from a person's emotions and prejudices
being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand; "a prejudiced judge" [syn: discriminatory] [ant: unprejudiced]
Usage examples of "prejudiced".
The Lady Cinna had, however, prejudiced herself in her natural daughter's estimation by humiliating the sire in the heir's presence.
I may be prejudiced," and he kissed her cheek, "but you were always more than just a singer, sunny' "Being just a singer would have been rather limiting," she remarked but she meant something different than he.
I had probably prejudiced my chance of getting to another Gather for the entire Turn, and I had unnecessarily wounded my mother.
I know I'm prejudiced," she smiled sadly, "but I have so much reason to be grateful to our little friends.
I know you knew who I was, that Mirrim had probably prejudiced you against me.
Gordon Allport (1954) illustrates how a prejudiced person resists "the facts"
People with high self-esteem, optimism, and tolerance are more aware and better able to control their prejudiced judgments.
We don't yet know how to get the high prejudiced people to see the irrationality and unfairness of generalizing from a stereotype to a specific unique individual.
Unfortunately, the highly prejudiced people can't see their irrationality and unfairness.
Each minimally prejudiced person has to keep confronting the highly prejudiced people with reason.
And speaking purely for myself, of course, and admitting that it's remotely possible I might be slightly prejudiced, I happen to feel you did exactly the right thing, since any solution which left my personal head on my shoulders was a good one.
I can assure you that at least some of the war maids are just as bitter and just as prejudiced against the Trisus of the world as Trisu could ever be against us, and some of those women are likely to begin acting on their bitterness if they feel we've been denied justice in this case.
However determined one might be to be diplomatic and reasonable, it must be hard to remember one's intention when all one wanted to do was to strangle the stiff-necked, obstinate, bigoted, prejudiced, quintessential young Sothōii reactionary on the other side of the conference table.
Why, then this same ugly, sickly, uncouth, prejudiced, benighted, half-mad little wretch leaped out of his hospital bed, and went careering in ten years straight to the top of a German nation thirsting for a return match.
He is violently prejudiced against you, and would not have listened to a word you had to say.