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treating people unfairly because of their race, sex, age etc
prejudiced
treating someone unfairly and having an unreasonable dislike of them because of their race, sex etc, or because they are old, disabled etc:
• The media had very prejudiced attitudes towards disabled people. • I don’t want to sound prejudiced, but I do think women are better at this type of job.
racist
treating someone unfairly because of their race:
• racist remarks • Children pick up racist attitudes from their parents.
sexist
treating someone unfairly because of their sex:
• He had made sexist comments to several women in the office. • The show was about two female inspectors who had trouble with their sexist bosses.
ageist
treating someone unfairly because of their age – used especially when old people are unfairly treated:
• Ageist attitudes result in older people being discriminated against in the workplace.
homophobic
treating someone unfairly because they are homosexual:
• Many of his songs are homophobic.
Longman-Thesaurus
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adj. VERBS be, seem ADV. deeply, extremely | racially PREP. against He's deeply prejudiced against women.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary