forbidden word: discriminated
discriminate(d) v. 1 Many businesses are accused of discriminating against women: deomonstrate bias, set apart as different, show disfavor toward, make a distinction against, disfranchise, disdain, treat as inferior. 2 Can you discriminate between good and bad art?: differentiate, draw a distinction, separate.
◊ Word origin: Discriminate comes from Latin dis- (apart) + crimen (charge, accusation), hence to make a judgment separating things. Latin crimen also gives us our words crime, criminal and incriminate.
from – Family Word Finder: Reader’s Digest. The Reader’s Digest Association, 1975.
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sentence examples: discriminated
It was a high-profile battle through tribunals and courts which put employers’ policies on inclusion under the spotlight and raised questions about whether by protecting the rights of one group, another was being discriminated against.
From BBC
“The Department of Justice will not sit by when women are discriminated against in sports,” US Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Wednesday.
From BBC
Why, when it comes to borders, do we accept policies that blatantly discriminate against people on the basis of where they were born?
From Los Angeles Times
However, his manager, Kimberley Hoskins, is taking him and their former employer to tribunal, claiming her allergy amounted to a disability and that they discriminated against her.
From BBC
The administration has characterized these programs as discriminating on the basis of race.
From Los Angeles Times
from — Dictionary.com | Meanings & Definitions of English Words. (2025g). In Dictionary.com.
May 7, 2025
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