How to Use discriminatory in a Sentence

discriminatory

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  • The law prohibits discriminatory hiring practices.
  • Democrats said that part of the bill would be discriminatory.
    — Jim Saunders, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The suit argued that the law was both discriminatory and vague.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The Supreme Court ruled that job transfers don't have to include a change in rank or pay to be deemed discriminatory.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2024
  • The danger is not so much the act of overturning a city ordinance, as that could be a good thing in the case of a discriminatory law.
    — Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 10 Feb. 2024
  • All of the parents said the treatment of their sons was unfair and discriminatory.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The nipple heel is an I-gotcha-shoe, something to flick your nose at the discriminatory height rules of the Cannes Film Festival.
    — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2025
  • What’s more, the Court said that, even if there were a discriminatory motive, the plaintiff should still lose if the same thing would have happened in its absence.
    — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • Some locals spoke out against the campaign to the BBC, finding the campaign's target of British males discriminatory.
    — Kristine Parks, Fox News, 3 Apr. 2023
  • With a spike in hate crimes and waves of discriminatory policies, the marginalized were not fragile for pointing out the dangers to their being.
    — Yangyang Cheng, The Atlantic, 23 Nov. 2021
  • By not taking the case, the Supreme Court let stand a ruling from an appeals court in Virginia that found the policy was discriminatory.
    — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Chu ruled the strike was not discriminatory and noted two Asian women were already on the jury.
    — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2021
  • The memorandum, first posted on the West Point subreddit and then on X, has drawn ire from some who feel the ban is discriminatory.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, TIME, 5 Feb. 2025
  • The court also said plaintiffs challenging the voting maps hadn’t proven their claims that the districts were discriminatory on the basis of race.
    — Alexa Corse, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Money began to pour in from the big banks looking to fulfill their post-Floyd promises to make right decades of discriminatory practices.
    — Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Trans advocates slammed the move as openly discriminatory and vowed to challenge it in court.
    — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Sherrill Farrell, one of the five plaintiffs in the suit against the Pentagon over discriminatory discharges.
    — Jessica Kegu, CBS News, 8 Aug. 2023
  • TikTok has pushed back against the contention that its platform is used to spread discriminatory content.
    — Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 7 Dec. 2023
  • As a method of doing things, there’s nothing on the face of absentee voting that is discriminatory.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2021
  • The lawyers said Johnson reported the discriminatory conduct to Hoyle and her deputy, Duke Shepard.
    — oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Boxed in by discriminatory housing restrictions, people of color had few, if any, other places to live in the city.
    — Audra D. S. Burch Carlos Jaramillo, New York Times, 21 May 2024
  • The Times reported that a second man had filed a complaint alleging that the show was discriminatory.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 26 June 2024
  • Your landlord could decide to end it at any time — with proper notice — as long as his actions are not discriminatory.
    — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 14 May 2022
  • Activists have spoken out against the bans as discriminatory and not rooted in science.
    — Robert Hart, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • When asked if outright ban is harmful to transgender athletes, McCarthy noted that the law is not meant to be discriminatory or an act of hate — merely a way to keep sports fields equal.
    — Cami Mondeaux, Washington Examiner, 20 Apr. 2023
  • As a result, the tax code remains discriminatory, Brown said.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Calls to rid the hair salon space of those discriminatory practices have also led to changes in hairdressing regulations in the UK.
    — Sierra Leone Starks, Allure, 19 July 2022
  • This is not the first time the district has been sued over allegations that its policy is discriminatory against Black students.
    — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Violence against trans youth has skyrocketed in states that pass discriminatory policies affecting trans people.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 8 Feb. 2025
  • White House war on overseas ‘discriminatory’ taxation The Trump administration wasted no time in responding.
    — Eric Rosenbaum, CNBC, 12 Feb. 2025

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