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bigot
/ˈbɪɡət/
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What does bigot mean?
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.
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noun
- (obsolete) One who is overly pious in matters of religion, often hypocritically or else superstitiously so.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈbɪɡət/
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Some one has said that such a bigot is not an optimist but a "cheerful idiot."
At the Restoration she had turned bigot, and that with so much energy that the priests had forgiven her her monk.
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It is, however, a narrow little face, and there is a tight-liddedness about the eyes which in an older woman might indicate the bigot.
Without electricity the air would rot, and without this violence of direction which men and women have, without a spice of bigot and fanatic, no excitement, no efficiency.
He had an inkling of urbanity, and could in a measure become all things to all men, while Philip could never show himself except as a gloomy, impracticable bigot.