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illiberal

/ih-lib-er-uhl, ih-lib-ruhl/US // ɪˈlɪb ər əl, ɪˈlɪb rəl //UK // (ɪˈlɪbərəl) //

非自由主义者,不自由,非自由主义,不自由的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : narrowminded; bigoted.
    • : Archaic. not generous in giving; miserly; stingy.Chiefly Literary.without culture or refinement; unscholarly; vulgar.

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Examples

  • For example, the major parties on the right in Canada and Australia have not become as illiberal as their American counterpart.

  • Which was the right thing to be, after all, because communism is as illiberal as fascism.

  • The refugees and civilian leaders believe the illiberal rhetoric from their armed allies reflect fundraising, not ideology.

  • Prohibition (aka, the “war on drugs”) is an illiberal failure.

  • At times it can lead people into some very illiberal little corners.

  • These days, instead, we witness elections followed by majoritarian mob rule—what Fareed Zakaria has called “illiberal democracy.”

  • A certain sum of money,—by no means illiberal as a present,—he had already extracted from the old man.

  • Later in life he visited Cordova, already in its decline through the illiberal government of the Almoravid dynasty.

  • He is cold, selfish and illiberal in his views, possessed of but little talent, and a physiognomy innocent of expression.

  • I said that it was highly illiberal to make personal attacks on Mr. Bentham before a friend who held him in high estimation.

  • Such were the positive orders of that illiberal and corrupt minister,—Mr. Henry Dundas.