Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an intolerant manner; without toleration.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In an intolerant manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In an intolerant manner; without toleration.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in an intolerant manner
  • adverb in a narrow-minded manner

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Examples

  • BIGOT: a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially: one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance

    Politics: Criticism or racism 2009

  • Put this way, we can understand that Iran is not evil because it is Islamic but because it is fundamentalist and no different, actually, than 16th-century Spain (or, for that matter, than the intolerantly atheistic Soviet Union).

    Terry Curtis Fox: Paladino, Rabbis and a New Religious Taxonomy Terry Curtis Fox 2010

  • Put this way, we can understand that Iran is not evil because it is Islamic but because it is fundamentalist and no different, actually, than 16th-century Spain (or, for that matter, than the intolerantly atheistic Soviet Union).

    Terry Curtis Fox: Paladino, Rabbis and a New Religious Taxonomy Terry Curtis Fox 2010

  • Wikipedia defines a BIGOT as a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices.

    Think Progress » Even Tancredo worries AZ immigration law may go too far: People shouldn’t be pulled over for how they look. 2010

  • | Reply | Permalink big·ot (ˈbi-gət): a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially: one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group, such as white southerners) with hatred and intolerance.

    Early Poll Data: Half Of All Virginia Voters Are Birthers 2010

  • "And to intolerantly not build the mosque is just polarizing and leads to the kind of problems that rake up this type of conflict."

    Woody Allen: Build The Mosque 2010

  • “They must not be persecuted: they are men, they are our brothers; and anathema to anyone who speaks of them intolerantly … They have been placed under your protection as individuals, not as Frenchmen, seeing that they must never be citizens.”

    Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009

  • She seemed creepy -- sassy and yet intolerantly provincial at the same time, with about as much gravitas as a high school student council candidate.

    Palin's Speech Watched By Nearly As Many As Obama's Acceptance 2009

  • It is plain wrong to think of this middle-ground, medium-heat or even lukewarm, majority of believing Americans who cherish the same commitment to freedom of speech and opinion, and who are just as critical of the intolerantly religious as are the new secularists, as the enemy of secular society.

    Paul Lakeland: Being Secular, Being Religious 2008

  • The move had a clear purpose - to harden "ethnic consolidation" and treat Arabs the way the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) described it: an intolerantly "endemic, systematic and pervasive bias against non-Jews .... trampling on their legal rights."

    Jonathan Cook's "Blood and Religion" 2008

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