discriminate

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

unfair
unfairThey objected to the state's unfair treatment of dissenters.
unjustThey protested unjust laws.
biasedThe newspaper gave a very biased report of the meeting.
slantedThe report was slanted in favour of the developers.
discriminatoryThe company has a zero-tolerance policy toward discriminatory practices.
prejudicedIt is well known that the company is prejudiced against older workers and refuses to hire anyone over the age of 50.
We see it as a very unfair and discriminatory tax on our industry.
He criticized what he called their discriminatory immigration policy.
Students claimed the all-male society was discriminatory against women.
This legislation is blatantly discriminatory.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Unfairness and favouring someone unfairly
ableism
ableist
agism
agist
Anglocentric
discrimination
discriminative
discriminatorily
drumhead
elitism
one-sided
one-sidedly
one-sidedness
one-way
othering
two-tier
unbalance
unequal
unequally
uneven

discriminatory | American Dictionary

discriminatory
adjective
us/dɪˈskrɪm·ə·nəˌtɔr·i, -ˌtoʊr·i/
unfairly treating a person or particular group of people differently from others:
discriminatory practices

discriminatory | Business English

discriminatory
adjective
uk /dɪˈskrɪmɪnətəri/ us /dɪˈskrɪmɪnətɔri/
treating particular people, companies, or products differently from others, especially in an unfair way:
The EU has already denounced the new regulations as discriminatory.
Several hundred Sikh women complained about discriminatory treatment by the company.
discriminatory laws/legislation/measures
discriminatory policies/practices

Examples of discriminatory

discriminatory
At first, infants display discriminatory abilities which span a broad range of phonetic pairs.
The centrepiece of the new colonial dispensation, the territorial councils, remained forums of debate without power, elected on limited and discriminatory franchises.
Respondents who would deny members of their most-liked groups the right to engage in a particular expressive act clearly would not be exhibiting discriminatory intolerance.
Bilingual education, "diversity" programs, and affirmative action policies aim to do more than assure individual opportunity by remedying specific discriminatory acts.
The antibiotic resistance is also a very useful phenotypic discriminatory tool and is routinely performed in several reference laboratories for characterization of salmonella isolates.
Conversely, requiring insurers to accept all applicants (so-called open enrolment) would encourage plans to develop ever more sophisticated discriminatory pricing mechanisms.
The methodology showed good discriminatory power and identified known household clusters of cases.
By adding more primers to the study, the discriminatory power of this technique might have been further improved.
Although, given the low number of observations (eight), the statistical test lacks discriminatory power, break-even and historical yields were not statistically different.
This could indicate lack of discriminatory power of the typing system or the statistical analyses, or true absence of a biological association.
Any attempt to develop an inclusive summary of older people's needs runs the risk of becoming a stereotype, and has the potential to be discriminatory.
Subsequently, we will explore whether familiar predictors of tolerance exert similar or dissimilar effects on generic and discriminatory perceptions.
It might represent a decision that the trial should be declined because the primary discriminatory process had failed.
In 1982, one reason for including popular music was to enable pupils to develop discriminatory powers or critical attitudes towards it.
This research is almost completely negative in nature, focusing on sexism, discriminatory social policies, ageism and the feminisation of poverty.
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