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il·lib·er·al

(ĭ-lĭb′ər-əl)

adj.

1. Narrow-minded; bigoted.

2. Archaic Ungenerous, mean, or stingy.

3. Archaic

a. Lacking education in the liberal arts.

b. Ill-bred; vulgar.

[Latin illīberālis : in-, not; see in-¹ + līberālis, liberal; see liberal.]

il·lib′er·al·ism n.

il·lib′er·al′i·ty (-ə-răl′ĭ-tē), il·lib′er·al·ness n.

il·lib′er·al·ly adv.

illiberal

(ɪˈlɪbərəl)

adj

1. narrow-minded; prejudiced; bigoted; intolerant

2. not generous; mean

3. lacking in culture or refinement

ilˌliberˈality, ilˈliberalness, ilˈliberalism n

ilˈliberally adv

il•lib•er•al

(ɪˈlɪb ər əl, ɪˈlɪb rəl)

adj.

1. narrow-minded; bigoted.

2. Archaic.

a. not generous; miserly.

b. lacking culture or refinement.

[1525–35; < Latin]

il•lib`er•al′i•ty, il•lib′er•al•ness, il•lib′er•al•ism, n.

il•lib′er•al•ly, adv.

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Adj.

illiberal - narrow-minded about cherished opinions

intolerant

narrow-minded, narrow - lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view; "a brilliant but narrow-minded judge"; "narrow opinions"

illiberal

adjective intolerant, prejudiced, bigoted, narrow-minded, small-minded, reactionary, hidebound, uncharitable, ungenerous His views are markedly illiberal.
intolerant liberal, tolerant, open-minded, broad-minded, generous, right-on (informal), charitable, politically correct or PC

illiberal

adjective

Not tolerant of the beliefs or opinions of others, for example:

bigoted, close-minded, hidebound, intolerant, narrow-minded.

Translations

illiberale repressivo

illiberal

[ɪˈlɪbərəl] ADJ (= bigoted) → intolerante; (= mean) → avaro, mezquino

illiberal

[ɪˈlɪbər^əl] adj → autoritaire, autoritariste

illiberal

adj

(= narrow-minded) → engstirnig, intolerant, engherzig; (= reactionary) → reaktionär; (Pol, Jur: = strict, repressive) law → restriktiv; rule → antiliberal; system, regime → autoritär

(= niggardly) → knauserig, geizig

illiberal

[ɪˈlɪbərəl] adj → illiberale

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To be sure when we consider that I DID take some pains to prevent my brother-in-law's marrying her, this want of cordiality is not very surprizing, and yet it shows an illiberal and vindictive spirit to resent a project which influenced me six years ago, and which never succeeded at last.

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It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of love, and that the noble enthusiasm of liberty is apt to be infected with a spirit of narrow and illiberal distrust.

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Her father, captivated by youth and beauty, and that appearance of good humour which youth and beauty generally give, had married a woman whose weak understanding and illiberal mind had very early in their marriage put and end to all real affection for her.

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Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.

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Within an ace of being Count was he, And would have been but for the spite and gall Of this vile age, mean and illiberal, That cannot even let a donkey be.

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Nobody doubts it; and I hope you do not think I am so illiberal as to want every man to have the same objects and pleasures as myself.

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In their concluding chapter, the four authors specify three distinctive features of East Asian illiberal democracies: "first, a non-neutral understanding of the state; second, the evolution of a rationalistic and legalistic technocracy that manages the developing state as a corporate enterprise; finally, the development of a managed rather than a critical public space and civil society" (p.

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This consensus cannot be called fiscally conservative and socially liberal in any truly libertarian sense, but it has also avoided the extremes characteristic of an illiberal movement.

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The fact is that ID cards are illiberal and will not achieve those things the government claims they will.