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Jew-baiting

[ joo-bey-ting ]

noun

  1. active antisemitism, including threats, hate speech, and other forms of overt harassment targeting Jews.


Jew-baiting

noun

  1. active persecution or harassment of Jews


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Derived Forms

  • ˈJew-ˌbaiter, noun

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Other Words From

  • Jew-bait·er noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Jew-baiting1

First recorded in 1890–95

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Example Sentences

There were restrictions on commerce, statute labor, barbarous penal laws, religious persecution and Jew-baiting.

I loathe Jew-baiting, and regard the Jew-baiter as a very unlovely person.

That he was also a man of resolution is shown by an incident of the time when Jew-baiting was having its sorry day in Denmark.

Such crises as would follow everywhere in consequence of Jew-baiting would rather be prevented by the carrying out of my plan.

There had been a sudden, unprecedented immigration of refugees from Russia, where Jew-baiting was then the orthodox pastime.

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