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UK
/lˈɪbəɹəl/
]
[ US /ˈɫɪˌbɝəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɪˌbɝəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- having political or social views favoring reform and progress
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given or giving freely
was a big tipper
a freehanded host
a munificent gift
the bounteous goodness of God
Saturday's child is loving and giving
a handsome allowance
her fond and openhanded grandfather
bountiful compliments
a munificent gift
a liberal backer of the arts -
not literal
a loose interpretation of what she had been told
a free translation of the poem - tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition
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showing or characterized by broad-mindedness
tolerant of his opponent's opinions
generous and broad sympathies
a broad political stance
a liberal newspaper
NOUN
- a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
- a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets
How To Use liberal In A Sentence
- Liberal democracy is a fraud, a cover for the power of the elite. Times, Sunday Times
- Neo-Liberal leadership is a lot like the mob: "Yooz can take de money or yooz can have terrible tings happen to ya."
- And there are a lot of so-called federalists, people who are just generally opposed to the extension of federal power and who object, who say look, this is the same thing that we objected to when liberals did it. CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2005
- KING: How do you react to the fact, we'll get to "Apollo 13" and lots of other things, that people looked at it from their point of view, liberals saw it as liberal, conservatives saw it conservative, moderates saw it as moderate, some people saw it as apolitical, antipolitical. CNN Transcript - Larry King Live Weekend: Tom Hanks' Career From `Bonfire of the Vanities' to `Saving Private Ryan' - February 17, 2001
- This, along with all the arguments against ratification of the EU Constitution, is something which we need to ram home at this moment when our electorate is so alive to the notion that they are being cozened by Labour and the Liberal ‘Democrats’ about the true effect of this Treaty. Archive 2008-02-03
- Just because the American people are disgusted with higher taxes, bigger government, left wing liberal give away policies and pacifist foreign policy attitudes, this idiot thinks the Tea Party activist is in someway trying to bring the country down. Clinton warns against violent anti-government attitude
- The Liberal Democrats are also being coy and modest. Times, Sunday Times
- CNN ... why arent you covering all the "handpicked," townhalls for Obama and theliberal dems? No media allowed at Palin speech in Missouri
- During this period, the Ontario Board of Censors was known to be the most liberal of all the provincial boards, and O.J. Silverthorne was the most respected film censor in Canada.
- My evidence for my own freethinking is that I don't buy into either the whole liberal agenda or the whole "con" agenda either. Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
