discriminatory

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[ UK /dɪskɹˈɪmɪnətəɹˌi/ ]
[ US /dɪsˈkɹɪmənəˌtɔɹi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. manifesting partiality
    preferential treatment
    preferential tariff rates
    a preferential shop gives priority or advantage to union members in hiring or promoting
    a discriminatory tax
  2. capable of making fine distinctions
  3. containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice
    discriminatory attitudes and practices
    invidious comparisons
  4. being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand
    a prejudiced judge
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How To Use discriminatory In A Sentence

  • In the case of marriage, calling SSM discriminatory or segregationist represents either a failure to adequately recognise the sexuality of the individual involved or more perniciously to regard that distinction as immaterial or undeserving of respect. Why are only queer rights on the chopping block?
  • OTOH I’ve always been fascinated by the massive blind spot in multiculti and PC discourse which refuses to acknowledge the oppressive and discriminatory elements in many non western cultures. Cheeseburger Gothic » Drop your bombs between the minarets, down Geneva way-ay-ay-aaayyy…
  • Team members might engage in discriminatory practices or hire only friends or relatives.
  • One apparently almost universal discriminatory practice was to pay women less than men.
  • This, as we said, is especially true for women who live in a chauvinist, discriminatory environment.
  • Yet the abolition of discriminatory migration proceeded apace. Times, Sunday Times
  • There are SO many laws already in place to correct discriminatory lending, that strenghtening of the CRA was NOT needed … but it was … to the point that Banks lended against solid and normal business practices. gimmee a break. Think Progress » DOJ official reportedly clears torture architects John Yoo and Jay Bybee.
  • Meanwhile, aspirations towards partnership with users and anti-discriminatory practice require active consideration of the context of users' lives.
  • The Left has also prioritized Marcuse's antinomic concept of "discriminatory tolerance" or Latest Articles
  • This is discriminatory: to discriminate against members of a group of people just is to treat them disadvantageously compared to members of other groups, when there's no adequate justification for doing so.
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