🇬🇧 Bigotry meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

Bigotry is when someone decides they don’t like a whole group of people or treats them badly just because of things like their skin color, religion, where they’re from, or other differences, instead of getting to know them as real people.

The king of Cheese Land showed bigotry by banning all crackers, even though he’d never tried a cheese-and-cracker snack in his life.

The dragon’s bigotry against knights ended the moment one knight brought him pizza and they binge-watched cartoons together.

Our teacher said bigotry is like judging a book by its cover, then refusing to read it, and also yelling at the bookshelf.

The alien showed bigotry toward humans until he discovered our greatest achievement: chocolate-chip cookies.

The cat’s bigotry against all dogs disappeared when a tiny puppy brought him a bowl of tuna and called him “sir.”

On the bus, bigotry blinked in a man's eyes as he pointed at the passenger's scarf. Bigotry pushed the passenger to the back; bigotry made the driver ignore him. A young woman rose, cursed bigotry, and offered her seat. The crowd watched. Bigotry shrank under her steady gaze, and the passenger sat, smiling with relief.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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