bigot

[ big-uht ]

noun

1. a person who is intolerant or hateful toward people whose race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, etc., is different from the person's own.

bigot

/ ˈbɪɡət /

noun

1. a person who is intolerant of any ideas other than his or her own, esp on religion, politics, or race

Derived Forms

• ˈbigoted, adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of bigot¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; from Middle French, from Old French: a derogatory name applied by the French to the Normans, perhaps from Old English bī God “by God”

Word History and Origins

Origin of bigot¹

C16: from Old French: name applied contemptuously to the Normans by the French, of obscure origin

Example Sentences

The court’s progressive justices being forced to compromise with bigots to avoid an even more disastrous outcome is a sign of how far we have fallen in just the few short years since the court made marriage equality the law of the land.

From Washington Blade

He also produced four witnesses saying Fuhrman had used the word, although many of his colleagues past and present told reporters he was not the bigot he was being portrayed as.

From Washington Post

I make it a point not to hang out with bigots, but I still wasn’t sure who would be able to love and support me and fully embrace my identity.

From Time

The fixation on China, the punchlines about the “Wuhan virus” or “kung flu,” are emboldening bigots, they said.

From Washington Post

Let’s tell the truth about these hypocritical bigots in death as many of us did in life.

From Washington Blade

Unfortunately, popular understandings of the bigot remain anchored in an earlier time.

From The Daily Beast

Critics of the bigot should begin placing a bit less emphasis on what he says or feels than what he actually does.

From The Daily Beast

Not every bigot is a conservative and not every conservative is a bigot.

From The Daily Beast

The bigot now employs camouflage in translating his prejudices into reality.

From The Daily Beast

The bigot today is often unaware either that he has prejudices or that he is indulging them.

From The Daily Beast

A good man, and a scholar of rare erudition, he possessed nevertheless the true temper of a bigot.

From Project Gutenberg

A religious bigot at the head of an empire, is one of the greatest scourges which Heaven in its fury could have sent upon earth.

From Project Gutenberg

The scholarship of the critical philosopher everywhere overbears the prejudice of the Christian bigot.

From Project Gutenberg

He is a furious bigot, and perfectly ignorant and regardless of the first principles of religion.

From Project Gutenberg

And suddenly a voice is heard in the darkness; terribly he did cry; a whale, the thinnest of them all, has there spit out a bigot.

From Project Gutenberg

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