illiberal
illiberal
Definition
il·lib·eral (i lib′ər əl)
il·lib′·er·al·ism′ (-iz′əm) noun or il·lib′·er·al′·ity-ər al′i tē
il·lib′·er·ally adverb
illiberal
Synonyms
illiberal
modif.
Prejudiced
biased, intolerant, bigoted, narrow-minded; see prejudiced, selfish 1.Miserly
illiberal
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- democracy: The specter of what analyst Fareed Zakaria has called " illiberal democracy " has emerged in the South.
- legislation: In times of moral panic, Parliament has consistently shown itself easily capable of distinctly illiberal legislation.
- measure: What is typical about Maggie's approach is that she does not move beyond the rhetoric of condemning illiberal measures in their own terms.
- state: This is about taking on the government in areas where they have been moving us toward an illiberal police state.
- policy: Above all, they say, your access to the web cannot be prevented, certainly not without draconian illiberal state policies.
- law: After the end of the era of Roe v Wade there will not be a uniform shift to illiberal abortion laws.
Modifying Another Word
- profoundly: Rousseau, tho he thought he was liberating the people, was in fact profoundly illiberal.
- deeply: I was disappointed to see in that speech a Bill to introduce the deeply illiberal measure of identity cards.
- distinctly: In times of moral panic, Parliament has consistently shown itself easily capable of distinctly illiberal legislation.
- increasingly: It is undemocratic, increasingly illiberal and riddled with fraud and corruption.
- inherently: The state, by contrast, coercively imposes ultimate control and is thus inherently illiberal and naturally Procrustean.
Used with adjective complement
- become: We have become illiberal in our desire to curb what was once normal behavior.
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