Illiberal is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ILLIBERAL in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• narrow-minded, intolerant or prejudiced
• opposed to liberal principles; restricting freedom of thought or behaviour
• uncultured or unrefined.
• not generous; mean.
• Not liberal; not free or generous; close; niggardly; mean; sordid.
• Indicating a lack of breeding, culture, and the like; ignoble; rude; narrow-minded; disingenuous.
• Not well authorized or elegant; as, illiberal words in Latin.
• narrow-minded about cherished opinions
• narrow-minded, intolerant
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• not liberal; as archaic; lacking a liberal education; lacking culture and refinement; not requiring the background of a liberal arts education c archaic; not generous; stingy; not broad-minde; bigoted; opposed to liberalism

Words related to ILLIBERAL

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Words that contain ILLIBERAL

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How to use ILLIBERAL in a sentence

• I have no doubt there are some illiberal Persons who would give it a much harsher name.
• His allowance to me was not illiberal, and though he did not oppose the carrying out of my own plans, he by no means urged me to exertion.
• Many people in our enlightened times would denounce this treatment as illiberal and persecuting, and justly.
• There was nothing jealous, barren, or illiberal, in the training he received.
• Oppressed by illiberal laws, and partly oppressed by themselves, many of our people are wicked, unhappy, inefficient.
• The foregoing is a harsh criticism, and may be thought illiberal.
• But thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.
• The most illiberal magistrates testified that the people respected the law, when they understood it.
• I have next to show that the society of him whose love is of the body, not the soul, is in itself illiberal.
• Of Incarnationist colour, it repudiated the dour illiberal spirit of the early Arabian apostles which latter-day Sunnite orthodoxy has revived.
• But, indeed, we may observe, that in a religious attorney these illiberal scruples do not often occur.
• It is to be feared, however, that their disinclination to introduce poor laws arises less from actual ignorance, than from an illiberal selfishness.
• Nay, indeed almost all these ideas are definitely illiberal, as it is the purpose of this chapter to show.
• I regret to say that I misled him on the subject of our copyright law, which, after all, is not so much more illiberal than that of England as I had thought it.
• Such low arts of popularity were affected, and by such illiberal cant were the unhappy people incited to civil discord and convulsions.
• The general conduct of the Roman Catholic body, hierarchy, and press, was provocative of popular anger, and calculated to create an illiberal feeling towards Roman Catholics.
• But the church of that country was so illiberal that the use of a term in any other than the accepted sense was a sufficient ground of excommunication.
• In my mind there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
• While there were but two parties, that is the liberal and the illiberal among the patricians, there were no less than three among the plebeians.
• The other two parties were nothing but servile retainers of the illiberal patricians.
• Six military tribunes were chosen, three from the liberal and three from the illiberal patricians.
• His Life, too, was written in a most illiberal spirit, though purposely in praise of the artist.
• Slapman had not been illiberal, so far as vulgar money was concerned.
• Out of these proceed illiberal sentiments, improper jealousies, and a train of evils which oftentimes in republican governments must be sorely felt before they can be removed.
• It is curious to see that the Protestants were the illiberal party, while the cardinal remained resolutely liberal.
• It is the paradox of Scotch history that the people are liberal in politics and illiberal in religion.
• He accepted the invitation and came to Boston, against the wishes of nearly half of the Boston congregation who did not like the illiberal principle which he represented.
• Perhaps he may have been partly entrapped by a chivalrous desire to rescue his idol from the disparagement cast on it by the tasteless and illiberal Johnson.
• But he was a capable and not illiberal minister of lands, and his value at that post to his party may be gauged by what they suffered when they had to do without him.
• There is something unmistakably illiberal, almost superstitious, in standing on race for its own sake, as if origins and not results were of moral value.
• Nevertheless to arrest attention on a means is really illiberal, though not so much by what such an interest contains as by what it ignores.
• Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.
• Notwithstanding the illiberal remarks made by Captain Thorn on the persons who were on board the ill-fated Tonquin, and reproduced by Mr.
• Again, it may be not infrequently observed that devotion to some particular study makes men illiberal to other branches of knowledge.
• It will, moreover, be important for his Majesty to issue there very urgent orders, so that the superiors in Europe may not be illiberal and refuse to furnish ministers.
• He was illiberal, without generosity, unsocial, and soulless, with every attribute of mind to be admired, without one quality of the heart to be loved.

Similar words containing LIBER without suffix al and without prefix il

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