Bigoted vs Parochial - What's the difference?
bigoted | parochial | Related terms |
Being a bigot; biased; strongly prejudiced; forming opinions without just cause.
Pertaining to a parish.
Characterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook.
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* 1969 , : A History of the Scottish People 1560-1830 , p 341:
As adjectives the difference between bigoted and parochial
is that bigoted is being a bigot; biased; strongly prejudiced; forming opinions without just cause while parochial is pertaining to a parish.bigoted
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(en adjective)Derived terms
* bigotedly * bigotednessparochial
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(en adjective)- The use of simple, primary colors in the painting gave it a parochial feel .
- Some people in the United States have been accused of taking a parochial view, of not being interested in international matters.
- But for men of principle and honour and straightforward thought there could be no middle course and no paltering with petty issues of party or parochial advantage.
- Its atmosphere might have been provincial, but it was never merely parochial .
