RACE-BAITING Synonyms: 15 Similar and Opposite Words

race-baiting

noun

Definition of race-baiting

as in racism

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Recent Examples of race-baiting He's race-baiting to appease the people who shamed him for his previous juvenile lifestyle, while quietly surrounding himself with mostly white men. — Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2026 Or was the issue simply that dunking on DINKs is a riskier gambit for graduates of Yale Law School than race-baiting? — Matthew Walther, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026 Moreover, the current mayor has resorted to race-baiting, further dividing the city, and has pursued a socialist agenda to Chicago’s detriment and its taxpayers. — Juan Rangel, Chicago Tribune, 8 Mar. 2026 Fox has become a pariah in the entertainment industry because of his anti-immigration rhetoric, race-baiting, and misogyny. — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 24 July 2025 Historians have focused instead on role of Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Cabinet Minister Ian MacKenzie, and race-baiting politicians in British Columbia. — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 16 Mar. 2025 And yet for a party and movement built in part on exclusion and a campaign marked at times by race-baiting, there were conspicuous overtures to diversity and inclusion, and sly acknowledgments of the power of the multiracial stew of American pop. — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2025

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The Justice Department wanted to preserve the possibility of bringing the case again, but In his ruling Thursday, Judge Todd Edelman dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning Hearn cannot be charged again over the same allegations.

— Jon Haworth, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026
The memo demanded that the charges be dismissed without prejudice—meaning that they could later be reinstated.

— Eyal Press, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of prejudice

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As a piece of theater, the dialogue between the two men often lands on the heart like a wry, platonic romance — and the moments in which both take a stand against the bigotry of some of Seastone’s callers are suddenly and acutely poignant.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026
The department’s defenders maintain that progress has been made toward rooting out bigotry.

— Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of bigotry

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