Synonym: discriminative, invidious, preferential, prejudiced. Similar words: discriminate, discrimination, discriminating, indiscriminate, indiscriminately, price discrimination, incriminate, incriminating. Meaning: adj. 1. being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand 2. containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice 3. capable of making fine distinctions 4. manifesting partiality.
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1. This discriminatory policy has really been a blight on America.
2. He said the priority list was discriminatory.
3. Does Compact persuade employers to discontinue discriminatory practices?
4. Was there evidence of discriminatory treatment?
5. The government enacted laws to protect women from discriminatory employment practices.
6. Team members might engage in discriminatory practices or hire only friends or relatives.
7. I read message after message spouting racist doctrines,(Sentencedict.com ) discriminatory diatribes and personal attacks.
8. Thus, for example, customs duties, discriminatory internal taxation and quotas have been abolished.
9. Our overriding conclusion was that racially discriminatory behaviour was not an obvious or noticeable feature of court-room interactions.
10. Congress is to launch an inquiry into discriminatory acts by immigration officials.
11. This success has been achieved despite the discriminatory tax regimes which are plainly protectionist.
12. The use of discriminatory language can and does disadvantage women and members of ethnic minority groups.
13. The trial court found that her demands were not petty or unreasonable, since they involved practices she felt were racially discriminatory.
14. A policy of free trade, rather than membership of a discriminatory trading regime, would have maximised the benefits of tariff reductions.
15. This is in line with immigration laws which have been blatantly sexually discriminatory against black women.
16. There are other diagnostic tests for hyponymy which are either discriminatory but insufficiently general, or general but insufficiently discriminatory.
17. To deny older women access to routine screening is both contra-indicated and explicitly discriminatory.
18. As state pension age is different for men and women, the Rules of the Scheme could be seen to be discriminatory.
19. What matters are the structures of power, the institutions and the social practices that produce racial oppression and discriminatory outcomes.
20. To take the analysis further, we need to look in more detail at racist beliefs and discriminatory practices.
21. On third Reading, he moved a second amendment to make racially discriminatory behaviour by the police a specific disciplinary offence.
22. Thus a social security system that includes a significant proportion of means-testing is bound to be age discriminatory in its effects.
23. Recent court decisions have ruled that using all-white models in real estate ads sends a discriminatory message to other races.
24. In the table that follows we provide a guide to avoiding discriminatory language.
25. In fact, the profiles that are held up as models for the United States to follow are ineffective and discriminatory.
26. By 1956, for instance, it had been able to overcome discriminatory practices in transportation rates and costs.
27. Adamson said he has fired employees and even canceled franchise agreements because of continued discriminatory practices.
28. Each of the member states had a host of other discriminatory practices that effectively distorted trade patterns.
29. Thus Blacks became a prime source of hostility for white unionists who set about erecting discriminatory barriers.
30. The office has no plans to tackle some of the most conspicuous discriminatory practices against women.
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