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narrow-minded
adjective as in biased, intolerant
Strong match
Example Sentences
“I love it. It’s gorgeous. I mean, I don’t like the small-minded people that live here. Narrow-minded, narrow boys’ club.
The cultures of politics and journalism are too short-sighted and narrow-minded to face up to our predicament.
She was right to trust her instinct: “Grey’s Anatomy,” now in its 20th season, is one of the longest-running prime-time dramas on American TV and the cornerstone of an entertainment empire built around complicated, fast-talking female characters who fly in the face of narrow-minded Hollywood assumptions about race, gender and “likability.”
As Rolling Stone reported, the “Appeal to Heaven” flag has its roots in the Revolutionary War, but in recent years “it has come to symbolize a die-hard vision of hegemonically Christian America” — that is, a society where laws are written based on narrow-minded interpretations of the Bible under the belief that one religion, and one particular, Americanized interpretation of that religion, should enjoy government-sanctioned supremacy over all others.
The Republican Party’s narrow-minded “America First” impulses, pushed by former President Donald Trump, have emboldened authoritarian rulers like Vladimir Putin.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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