illiberal

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.