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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2
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
Pea protein: Peas are almost as protein-dense as soy, so pea protein is an excellent choice for anyone intolerant to soy.
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Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2025
The questions of the HPE team, intolerant of apparent disorder, was met with a culture of curiosity.
—Michael Hudson, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
Primroses are a bit picky and intolerant of full sun, dry weather, and extreme cold.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 4 June 2025
Hellenistic culture was imperfectly tolerant; the Christian one perfectly intolerant.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
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Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2025
The questions of the HPE team, intolerant of apparent disorder, was met with a culture of curiosity.
—Michael Hudson, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
Primroses are a bit picky and intolerant of full sun, dry weather, and extreme cold.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 4 June 2025
Hellenistic culture was imperfectly tolerant; the Christian one perfectly intolerant.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intolerant
Adjective
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But the game's structure also allows skillful and/or impatient players to zip to the game's conclusion quite quickly, rushing through the visually inventive bosses that guard the game's major chokepoints.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
16 July 2025
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Although the frustration of supporters is shared internally, there is no sense of panic — which is unlikely to pacify fans understandably impatient for additions following three successive windows without a first-XI signing.—
Chris Waugh,
New York Times,
3 July 2025
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Doctor The rhetoric around Mamdani has been described as racist, bigoted and Islamophobic.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 July 2025
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Only the Ku Klux Klan could enjoy such bigoted and nonsensical statements.—
Khaleda Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025
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But its critics say EA continues to make narrow and curious choices that neglect both systemic issues and the complexly human reasons people give, as a battle for billions rages on.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
24 July 2025
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That choice is one of the starkest demonstrations that the regime’s priority of narrow self-interest over the global good won’t be changing anytime soon.—
Michael Schuman,
The Atlantic,
24 July 2025
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There also appeared to be a number of parochial changes aimed at placating some of the most vocal opponents of the legislation, including several for Alaska, home to Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican who has said the measure would hurt her state.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
29 June 2025
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Brian Colbert ran on a parochial platform focused on garden-variety local issues.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
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Bashir also encourages the use of solar power, helping clients navigate provincial subsidies and designing homes with electrical systems that can easily accommodate solar panel installations or solar roof tiles.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
19 July 2025
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One local Druze man told me on Tuesday that artillery was raining down on the provincial capital, and that kidnappings and gun battles were taking place across the area.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
18 July 2025
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The tweets, which NASL argues prejudiced jurors, came after NASL was denied D2 recognition.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
13 May 2025
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When children were told a story about new pupils at a fictional school and asked to recount the story later, there were significant differences in what the most prejudiced children remembered, as opposed to the most liberal children.—
Matt Richtel,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The rise of chauvinistic, illiberal parties and movements is an international phenomenon.—
Gershom Gorenberg,
The Atlantic,
30 May 2025
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Today, the most obvious examples of this backsliding can be found in Asia, where an increasingly assertive China is attempting to redraw the regional rules of the road, and in Europe, where Russian rubles and wan Western politicians have helped prompt the rise of illiberal parties.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
3 Mar. 2025
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Its opposite—illiberal—means stingy, narrow-minded, intolerant, provincial, unenlightened, and using government to insure the flourishing of only the few.—
Harper’s Magazine,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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That is something that has always struck me as strange and narrow-minded.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 June 2025
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“Intolerant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intolerant. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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