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/ˈbɪɡət/ · noun
One who is narrow-mindedly devoted to their own ideas and groups, and intolerant of (people of) differing ideas, races, genders, religions, politics, etc..
A former senior minister from Boris Johnson’s government told the Guardian they believed Braverman was a “real racist bigot”.
He is no bigot or hypocrite, he is not torn and divided betwixt reality and appearance, no wretch of a rugged and peevish disposition, but honest, jovial, resolute, and a good fellow.
Thus one part of their Church becomes Sotts and Bigots; and the other that behold this Scene of things, though they profess themselves of their Church, become a company of profane Atheists and clancular Deriders of all Religion. […] Nay it is a question whether those that do more superstitiously cleave to them, doe it not rather in a kind of confusion and obstupefaction of mind out of fear and suspicion, then any determinate assurance or firm belief of the things they outwardly profess.
Donna Clara was a woman of a cold and grave temper, with all the solemnity of a Spaniard, and all the austerity of a bigot.
Use bigot when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bigot means One who is narrow-mindedly devoted to their own ideas and groups, and intolerant of (people of) differing ideas, races, genders, religions, politics, etc..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A former senior minister from Boris Johnson’s government told the Guardian they believed Braverman was a “real racist bigot”.
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