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 permit application from J7 Ready Mix was denied with prejudice during a hearing in Austin.

— Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Oct. 2026
All the prejudices my characters are designed to expose haven’t just lingered—they’ve metastasized.

— Lars Brandle, Billboard, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of prejudice

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