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Prejudiced

adjective

Emanating from a person's emotions and prejudices.

Being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand. Synonym: discriminatory. Antonym: unprejudiced.

Prejudice

verb

(past & past part. prejudiced; pres. part. prejudicing)

Disadvantage by prejudice.

Influence (somebody's) opinion in advance. Synonym: prepossess.

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"Prejudiced" Quotes from Famous Books

... city offers problems of maladjustment. Although these problems are similar to those of other rural populations that become urban dwellers, it is made more acute because he has greater handicaps due to his previous condition of servitude and to the prejudiced opposition of the white world that surrounds him. His health, intelligence and morals respond to treatment similar to that of other denizens of the city, if only impartial treatment can be secured. Doubtless death-rate and crime-rate have been and are greater than the corresponding ...

— The Negro at Work in New York City - A Study in Economic Progress • George Edmund Haynes

... realized that he did not intend to discuss it, and the conviction was forced upon me that he had never intended to have it discussed. It was a disappointing result and one which impressed me with the belief that Mr. Wilson was prejudiced against any suggestion that I might make, if it in any way differed with his own ideas even though ...

— The Peace Negotiations • Robert Lansing

... English. The Regent Bedford himself was a canon of Rouen, as Charles VII was a canon of Puy.[2152] On the 20th of October, in that same year 1430, the Regent, donning surplice and amice, had distributed the dole of bread and wine for the chapter.[2153] The canons of Rouen were not prejudiced in favour of the Maid of the Armagnacs; they agreed to the demand of the Bishop of Beauvais and granted him the ...

— The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2) • Anatole France

... personally interested in the problems, it's as bad as if you hadn't the materials of judgment left; you're prejudiced. Besides, I ...

— Indian Summer • William D. Howells

... work. We must not forget that the distance of the burner from the work is a vital point of the cost question; and, for all except large spaces, requiring general illumination, a common cheap burner on a swivel joint has yet to meet with a competitor. Do not think I am old-fashioned or prejudiced in this matter. It is purely a question of figures; and my condemnation of regenerator burners applies only to the general requirements in ordinary engineering and other work shops where each man wants a light on ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 • Various

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