The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word BIGOT
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More clues leading to the result BIGOT
- Regularly being most intolerant, him?
- Chauvinist's piece about good love
- One with unpleasant views returning to Gibraltar
- Leave boring part for sectarian
- Important part of bible for homophobe?
- One with fixed views of large part of bible
- Racist piece about to be removed
- With generous spirit not present, heartless? I am
- Character lacking tolerance from great books
- Run, in part, as epitome of intolerance
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The straight part
We know that "sectarian" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case sectarian = bigot.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does BIGOT mean?
BIGOT noun- One who is narrow-mindedly devoted to one's own ideas and groups, and intolerant of (people of) differing ideas, races, genders, religions, politics, etc.
- One who is overly pious in matters of religion, often hypocritically or else superstitiously so.