Look up the word 'bigoted' in OED after watching Gorden Brown disastrously misspeaks through an opened forgotten microphone. Still yet fully comprehend the negativeness of the word...
bigoted, adj.
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d/, U.S. /bgdd/ Forms: 16 18- bigoted, 16-17 biggoted, 16-18 bigotted, 17 biggotted; Sc. 17- bigoted, 18 begoted, 18 begottit, 18 begutted, 18- begotted, 19- bigotit. [< BIGOT n. + -ED suffix2. Compare earlier BIGOT adj. Metrical evidence suggests that the second syllable was sometimes stressed in the 17th and 18th centuries, though Johnson's and other dictionaries give only stress on the first syllable.]
1. Obstinately or unreasonably attached to a faction, cause, belief, etc.
1631 E. P
ELLHAM in A. Churchill & J. Churchill
Coll. Voy. (1704) 438 They are so Bigotted to their Misery, that whatever you tell them concerning the Advantage of the Danish Climate beyond theirs, has not the least effect upon them.
1681 R. L'ESTRANGE Reply 2nd Pt. Char. Popish Successor 11 In declaring him to be of no Religion at all; and so far from Bigotted to the Church of Rome, that he would Sacrifice even the Popedom it self to his humour.
a1704 T. BROWN Ess. Satire Antients in
Wks. (1730) I. 22 Men who are biggoted to the opinions they have imbibed under their teachers.
1782 F. BURNEY Cecilia II.
IV. ix. 244 Mr. Harrel..has been so strangely biggotted to his friend.
1816 BYRON Childe Harold II. xliv, So nursed and bigoted to strife.
1848 Southern Lit. Messenger Apr. 220 Bigoted to his own notions, he is equally ready to become a martyr, and to inflict the tortures of martyrdom.
1941 Mod. Philol. 39 151 Kind-hearted worthy persons, some of them, but bigoted to their own narrow view of life.
1998 F. P. L
OCK Edmund Burke I. v. 153 Since he effectively denied credence to any miracles, believers could dismiss him as simply bigoted to incredulity.
2. Characterized by bigotry; obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, faction, etc.; intolerant towards others, their beliefs, practices, etc.
1645 J. EVELYN Mem. (1857) I. 192 Though the least bigoted of all Roman Catholics.
1682 S. PORDAGE Medal Revers'd 336 One bigotted in the Romish way.
1716 J. P
ERRY State of Russia 142 The old Boyars..ruled the former Czars by whatsoever superstitious and biggotted Schemes and Notions they had a Mind to.
1759 W. H. DILWORTH Life of Pope 69 A bigotted Jacobite.
1770 D. HUME Let. 5 July (1932) II. 229 He had no bigotted Animosity against the Catholics.
1848 H. MILLER First Impr. Eng. vii. 107 His bigoted, weak-minded sister, the bloody Mary.
1875 H. E. MANNING Internal Mission of Holy Ghost ix. 236 We are thought to be intolerant and bigoted, because we will keep no peace with heresy.
1908 E. F. BENSON Climber 54 Eager, strenuous people, who longed, like himself, to live a full, fine life
not narrow, not bigoted, but with hands of welcome to all that was worthy.
1951 D. RIESMAN in
Amer. Scholar 10 271 Such people did not want to appear backwoodsy and bigoted.
2007 Daily Rec. (
Glasgow
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(Nexis) 9 Nov. 33 He was forced to step down as a parliamentary candidate after he backed Enoch Powell's bigoted views on immigration.
[OED, Mar 09 version]
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