1
as in impatient
unable or unwilling to endure
intolerant of fools, she is not an easy person to work for
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as in bigoted
unwilling to grant other people social rights or to accept other viewpoints
intolerant people who callously deny others the very rights that they take for granted
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Recent Examples of intolerant
Inspector Generals' offices must be staffed by people who are constitutionally intolerant of injustice.
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Lucy Lang, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
Advertisement One reason is that Chinese companies in Thailand have historically been intolerant of labor unions.
—Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
Today another Russian leader, intolerant of the reality of a Ukraine independent from Mother Russia, has made the eradication of Ukrainian identity a prime objective of Russia’s nearly three-year-old war on the country.
—Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2024
The regulations were designed to prevent intolerant environments that hinder learning.
—Orlando Mayorquín, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2024
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Lucy Lang, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
Advertisement One reason is that Chinese companies in Thailand have historically been intolerant of labor unions.
—Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
Today another Russian leader, intolerant of the reality of a Ukraine independent from Mother Russia, has made the eradication of Ukrainian identity a prime objective of Russia’s nearly three-year-old war on the country.
—Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Dec. 2024
The regulations were designed to prevent intolerant environments that hinder learning.
—Orlando Mayorquín, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intolerant
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Consumers can be brutally impatient with new technology.—
Mike Feibus,
USA TODAY,
28 Feb. 2025
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Rodriguez said her team got impatient but was ecstatic to see Funez deliver the winner.—
San Diego Union-Tribune,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Feb. 2025
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How long will this continue before reciting bigoted chants and bearing weapons becomes blocking Jews from buildings and harming Israeli students?—
Ellia M Torkian,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Mar. 2025
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The slogan put the audience in the shoes of a casually bigoted, insubordinate alcoholic who bends the NYPD’s rules in pursuit of drug runners.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
27 Feb. 2025
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Others may include family offices that offer a narrower range of services.—
Francois Botha,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
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Thirty narrow stairs lead to City Ballet’s bright, top floor rehearsal studio, with double ballet barres lining three walls, a floor-to-ceiling mirror, and an open ceiling with a treacherously low center beam that high jumping dancers have learned to avoid.—
Marcia Luttrell,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 Mar. 2025
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And yet conceding those messy parochial disputes to powers outside the university seems to some to represent no less of a crisis.—
Nathan Heller,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
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Nation-states and their parochial identities would give way to an interdependent and cosmopolitan future.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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The head of the religious school was among those killed, said provincial government spokesman Muhammad Ali Saif.—
Reuters,
CNN,
28 Feb. 2025
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The necklace may have been worn by someone in the Lusatian culture, or during the early days of the West Baltic Kurgan culture, according to the provincial office.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
26 Feb. 2025
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Desiree confronts the prejudiced church pastor in a clash that’s not truly resolved.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
6 Feb. 2025
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The sudden shift flummoxed the music industry, which had inherited a profoundly prejudiced business structure from the totalizing predation of Jim Crow.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
2 Jan. 2025
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Second, Africa's declining support for democracy provides a clear opening for illiberal actors.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
3 Mar. 2025
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Imagining an illiberal, renegade United States is only a matter of taking seriously what Trump says.—
HAL BRANDS,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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Gazing out onto Prince William Sound with its stunning scenery had this narrow-minded city-and-car guy bitten by the cruise bug.—
David Dickstein,
Orange County Register,
5 Feb. 2025
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The Grammys have always prized a narrow-minded, classic sense of musicianship: deft songwriting, big vocals, live instrumentation.—
Justin Curto,
Vulture,
3 Feb. 2025
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“Intolerant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intolerant. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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