parochial

Preposition: in

• outlook: We are passive in our response to the faith and parochial in outlook.
• sense: His father was a Salford bookie actually - I'm very parochial in that sense.

Modifies a noun

• chapelry: The rector receives the rectorial tithes of Westwick, in the parochial chapelry of Barnard Castle.
• schoolmaster: The yearly amount of the parochial schoolmaster 's salary is £ 32.
• clergy: Along with this must go the right for all the parochial clergy to confirm.
• reords: Shows overall dates of old parochial reords held in Edinburgh and available internationally on microfilm.
• relief: On Christmas Day and Easter Sunday, a dole is given to the poor of the township who do not receive parochial relief.
• ministry: Prior to joining the Navy I was in parochial ministry with two Anglican parishes in the North of England.

Modifying Another Word

• too: I also think business people are far too parochial in their intake of stimuli that could help them innovate.
• rather: And it is also, perhaps, a rather parochial parallel.
• so: Even so, that's only true of Britain, why so parochial?
• very: The Council is generally very parochial, with seats being handed down from father to son.
• not: Quite apart from that, we have always had a policy of making sure that our digital content is not parochial.
• little: There have also been problems with the 222 bus service, but perhaps my remarks are becoming a little parochial.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Thus with Europe, peripheral Ireland became cosmopolitan; metropolitan Whitehall became parochial.
• seem: These buried tablets would make the art of many of his contemporaries seem very parochial indeed.
• remain: For such a world icon the study of handaxes has remained curiously parochial.
• sound: As fashion designer Shelley Fox says: " When you say Russia or the UK, it sounds parochial.
• get: On a more parochial not ( can you get more parochial than the Daily Mail?