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preconceived
adjective as in jaundiced
adjective as in prejudiced
Example Sentences
“I had all these preconceived notions growing up in the church. They’re perceived as a threat, you know, their lifestyles.”
"I wanted a character that was not going to be pigeonholed by preconceived notions about what I can or cannot do," she said.
He said there were also concerns about the lack of an equality impact assessment and the validity of a questionnaire with "some questions constructed to give a preconceived outcome".
Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh related that Straussians filled the Pentagon’s ad hoc Office of Special Plans, and had bulldozed the government’s intelligence agencies in order to cherry-pick dubious evidence to fit their preconceived notions.
There are a lot of preconceived, bad ideas about seafood farming.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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