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UK
/pɹˈɛdʒuːdɪs/
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[ US /ˈpɹɛdʒədɪs/ ]
[ US /ˈpɹɛdʒədɪs/ ]
NOUN
- a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation
VERB
- disadvantage by prejudice
- influence (somebody's) opinion in advance
How To Use prejudice In A Sentence
- Both groups are forced to suffer the prejudices that have been fuelled by the tabloids and absorbed by an uninformed public.
- It literally unlocks the prejudice of so many people, and emancipates them from the dungeon of partial judgment. WHAT IS SAID, NOT WHO SAYS IT
- Otherwise, the sketch is exactly accurate, and is here presented as the unprejudiced description and estimate of a foreign gentleman, who had no inducement, such as might be attributed to a Southern writer, to overcolor his portrait. A Life of Gen Robert E Lee
- The city of Palermo was also distinguishable; and Julia, as she gazed on its glittering spires; would endeavour in imagination to depicture its beauties, while she secretly sighed for a view of that world, from which she had hitherto been secluded by the mean jealousy of the marchioness, upon whose mind the dread of rival beauty operated strongly to the prejudice of Emilia and Julia. A Sicilian Romance
- The interesting element of the game was that it required one to evaluate not films but people; that is, to sift through the prejudices of one’s movie-freak friends and the peccadilloes and quirks of the major reviewers, and by graphing, as it were, what each could be expected to overpraise, underpraise, revile, not notice, or deliberately ignore, one could acquire a very nice sense of the film. Film flam
- One minister counseled his people, let us do nothing to rekindle the slumbering fires of prejudice between the two races. A Renegade History of the United States
- The freaks of nature displayed here appealed to peoples’ prejudice, their unquenchable curiosity for the outlandish and the unknown, and the paradoxical human attraction and repulsion for the diseased and deformed.
- I hope that my faithful advice will not be bewrayed to my prejudice? Kenilworth
- The contradictory demands of justifying and criticizing national prejudice can be seen in the everyday discourse of racism.
- Name one country in history where bolstering people in their prejudices has turned out for the best. Times, Sunday Times