hurtful

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Unfairness and favouring someone unfairly
ableism
ableist
agism
agist
Anglocentric
discrimination
discriminative
discriminatorily
discriminatory
drumhead
one-sided
one-sidedly
one-sidedness
one-way
the old school tie
two-tier
unbalance
unequal
unequally
uneven

Examples of prejudicial

prejudicial
Much of the interest and information, scholarly as well as public, has been prejudicial.
But others may find this coherent self-containment constrictive and prejudicial in the worst sense.
This resulted from a petition to a senior magistrate that works about to be done to a neighbour's property were prejudicial to one's own.
One response materialists can make to dualists is simply to argue that the topicneutral approach is correct, but that it is not prejudicial to dualism.
The phrasing of this question could have elicited presumed rather than actual prejudicial/stereotypical thoughts.
Because these are predominantly non-disabled people, it is likely that they will hold some of the prejudicial attitudes to disability which are common in society.
He notes that teachers' assessments of unsatisfactory classroom behaviour may reflect prejudicial perceptions of children from adverse backgrounds and may act as self-fulfilling prophesies.
There would be a moral lapse in the system if certain programs consistently excluded certain candidates for ill-founded, prejudicial reasons.
He would just allow the testimony about what was in the pictures because he felt that the pictures in themselves were prejudicial.
One might legitimately take issue with the term as both prejudicial and imprecise.
The general stigma against obesity, which can lead to negative and prejudicial attitudes against obese people, often results in major personal suffering and a burden of guilt.
For this reason education and intergenerational activity programmes which are aimed at addressing prejudicial views play an important role in reversing the formation of ageist attitudes in the community.
That this might be prejudicial is also a cultural question of whether a person's brain status can be equated with his mental status and his personhood.
Self-interest, unwillingness to consider the evidence, and fatal exposure to prejudicial information are not the only things that may interfere with impartiality.
Those affected by obesity should not be treated with negative or prejudicial attitudes-many people are at risk for obesity, but no one wants to be obese.
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