Definition of PREJUDICE (original) (raw)

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Noun

But today most black Americans not hampered by poverty or prejudice take for granted their right to study Italian, listen to Britney Spears or opera, play in the NHL, eat Thai food, live anywhere, work anywhere, play anywhere, read and think and say anything. —Stephan Talty, Mulatto America, 2003 It is easy to suppose at this late date that there is barely any overt racism left in the United States, … Kennedy's catalog of mundane cases of explicit anti-black prejudice provides ample illustration of what lurks beneath the surface politeness of many whites. —John McWhorter, New Republic, 14 Jan. 2002 The boundaries between hate and prejudice and between prejudice and opinion and between opinion and truth are so complicated and blurred that any attempt to construct legal and political fire walls is a doomed and illiberal venture. —Andrew Sullivan, New York Times Magazine, 26 Sept. 1999 When my mother, who, unlike my father, was Jewish, encountered unpleasant social prejudice during my high-school years, I acquired a second marginal identity. —Carl E. Schorske, Thinking with History, 1998

The organization fights against racial prejudice. religious, racial, and sexual prejudices We tend to make these kinds of decisions according to our own prejudices. He has a prejudice against fast-food restaurants. Verb

Paul Revere … engraved the drawing and printed hundreds of vividly colored copies, which traveled throughout the colonies. Well might one judge at Captain Preston's trial complain that "there has been a great deal done to prejudice the People against the Prisoner." —Hiller B. Zobel, American Heritage, July/August 1995 My friends would have had me delay my departure, but fearful of prejudicing my employers against me by such want of punctuality at the commencement of my undertaking, I persisted in keeping the appointment. —Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey, 1847

all the bad stories I had heard about the incoming CEO prejudiced me against him even before the first meeting

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After charges against Haim were dropped, a judge then dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning that Haim cannot be charged with the same offenses in the future. —Abby Monteil, Them, 28 Jan. 2025 At this juncture, dismissal with prejudice is required. —Jenna Sundel, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025

On Monday, Lively and Baldoni’s lawyers met in court for the first time where U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman ordered the attorneys to comply with a federal court rule barring lawyers from making statements to the press that could prejudice the case. —Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Feb. 2025 Neither Lively nor Baldoni were in the New York court for the pre-trial conference, where Judge Lewis Liman advised their attorneys to avoid making statements in public that could prejudice the proceedings. —Sandra Gonzalez, CNN, 3 Feb. 2025 See all Example Sentences for prejudice