intolerant

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Since I am gluten-intolerant, there aren't too many pizza options for me.

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  1. adjective Not tolerant, especially:
  2. adjective Unwilling to tolerate differences in opinions, practices, or beliefs, especially religious beliefs.
  3. adjective Opposed to the inclusion or participation of those different from oneself, especially those of a different racial, ethnic, or social background.
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  • Since I am gluten-intolerant, there aren't too many pizza options for me. —  Serious Eats: New York
  • The instant the defense attorney stands to challenge the groundless faith-based testimony of the witness he is called bigoted, intolerant, and militant. —  Planet Atheism
  • The people labelling someone as politically incorrect also automatically attach to them labels of being intolerant, a bigot or hate-monger simply for making the arguments they present. —  MercatorNet
  • I know people who are lactose intolerant, and they avoid cheese.
  • To be tolerant of the intolerant is just to invite being steamrolled. —  Nicholas D. Kristof
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  1. = French intolérant = Spanish Portuguese intolerante = Italian intollerante, from from Latin intoleran(t-)s, intolerant, from in- privative + toleran(t-)s, present participle of tolerare, bear, tolerate: see tolerant.
 

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