All 7 Uses of
prejudice
in
Main Street
- Say honestly——Of course I may be prejudiced, but I've seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association meeting, and I spent practically a week in New York!†
Chpt 2
- She hastened to smile in agreement with Miss Villets, to glance publicly at her wrist-watch, to warble that it was "so late—have to hurry home—husband—such nice party—maybe you were right about maids, prejudiced because Bea so nice—such perfectly divine angel's-food, Mrs. Haydock must give me the recipe—good-by, such happy party——"†
Chpt 7
- You must do that, no matter how absurd their prejudices are, if you're going to handle them.†
Chpt 8 *
- She could not take their point of view; it was a negative thing; an intellectual squalor; a swamp of prejudices and fears.†
Chpt 10
- She wondered why the good citizens insisted on adding the chill of prejudice, why they did not make the houses of their spirits more warm and frivolous, like the wise chatterers of Stockholm and Moscow.†
Chpt 10
- But look here: You're so prejudiced against Gopher Prairie that you overshoot the mark; you antagonize those who might be inclined to agree with you in some particulars but——Great guns, the town can't be all wrong!"†
Chpt 23
- Mrs. Dyer seemed not to share the town's prejudice against Erik.†
Chpt 29
Definition:
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(prejudice) bias that prevents objective consideration -- especially an unreasonable belief that is unfair to members of a race, religion, or other group