0 treating a person or group differently from and usually worse than other people, because of their skin colour, sex, sexuality, etc.:
1 unfairly treating a person or particular group of people differently from others:
discriminatory practices
2 treating particular people, companies, or products differently from others, especially in an unfair way:
The EU has already denounced the new regulations as discriminatory.
Several hundred Sikh women complained about discriminatory treatment by the company.
discriminatory laws/legislation/measures
We see it as a very unfair and discriminatory tax on our industry.
He criticized what he called their discriminatory immigration policy.
Students claimed the all-male society was discriminatory against women.
This legislation is blatantly discriminatory.
At first, infants display discriminatory abilities which span a broad range of phonetic pairs.
For example, in legitimating discriminatory behavior toward women, it enacts changes with respect to the obligation to refrain from such behavior.
The centrepiece of the new colonial dispensation, the territorial councils, remained forums of debate without power, elected on limited and discriminatory franchises.
Respondents who would deny members of their most-liked groups the right to engage in a particular expressive act clearly would not be exhibiting discriminatory intolerance.