irrational prejudice
collocation in Englishmeaningsofirrationalandprejudice
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irrational
adjective
uk/ɪˈræʃ.ən.əl/us/ɪˈræʃ.ən.əl/
not using reason or ...
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prejudice
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈpredʒ.ə.dɪs/us/ˈpredʒ.ə.dɪs/
an unfair and unreasonable opinion or feeling, especially when formed without enough thought ...
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(Definition ofirrationalandprejudicefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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There is possibly an element ofirrationalprejudicein this determination, but another reason has to do with scientific method.
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Aristocracy was anirrationalprejudice, and as such it could not resist the progress of enlightenment.
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In other words, the argument has developed that discrimination on the ground of age is ageist only if guided byirrationalprejudiceand mistaken beliefs, rather than by commercial exigencies.
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That was not just their ownirrationalprejudiceand bias; it was their own experience.
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They seem here to have been caught by some strangeirrationalprejudice, and swept along by it regardless of the facts.
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The prejudice is there, and although there is the rational factor, there is also theirrationalprejudice.
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The real enemy, of course, isirrationalprejudice.
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Two hundred years have done very little to removeirrationalprejudice.
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That is theirrationalprejudiceof the party opposite against any form of public ownership of industry whatever.
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My association uses words like "irrationalprejudice".
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The wolves represent the majority who display anirrationalprejudiceand hatred towards the minority, the rabbits.
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Clause 28 will deal with the activities of a few councils which have provoked considerable public disquiet and, regrettably, fuelled irrational prejudices.
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This remains that of assisting the integration of immigrant peoples into the community and the prevention of the spread of harmful and irrational prejudices.
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Individuals have a range of feelings that are often difficult to classify because they range from irrational prejudices to moral perceptions.
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But the public disquiet about unauthorised camping cannot be attributed solely to irrational prejudices.
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Again, this is one of those irrational prejudices which excludes any local authority representative from a committee of that kind.
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In the phrase, prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, he defends people's cherished, but untaught, irrational prejudices (the greater it behooved them, the more they cherished it).
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