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[ UK /ɪlˈɪbəɹə‍l/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. narrow-minded about cherished opinions

How To Use illiberal In A Sentence

  • Hence, it seems that the appeal to ‘tolerance’ does not resolve the conflict between liberal values and illiberal minorities.
  • Mr. Yarmolinsky says that Robert Kennedy "did not 'misrepresent' Senator Keating's record, but exposed the inconsistent and often illiberal character of that record. R.F.K.
  • The term "banausic" comes from philosophy and concerns "the illiberal or vulgar arts," subjects with which Vidal has frequently dealt. Myra, Myron, & Gore
  • And one of the key signs that much of today's left is actually, demonstrably illiberal, intolerant and reactionary, is the way in which this is now a common feature of leftist discourse.
  • And yet Scotland has changed in attitudes in the last 20 years, and is as liberal / illiberal as England.
  • It was easier to throw increasingly illiberal sound bites at a shadowy and fearsome enemy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ours is an age of illiberal liberalism and intolerant tolerance, where we are apparently free to live as we choose - so long as we don't want the right to make ‘wrong’ choices.
  • This is to be welcomed because it marks a setback for the backward-looking and small-minded, illiberal and anti-democratic outlook that has come to define the radical rump.
  • They exploit the values of an open liberal society to reach illiberal ends.
  • It doesn't feel illiberal: it feels blasphemous. Times, Sunday Times
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