illiberal
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Illiberal \Il*lib"er*al\, a. [L. illiberalis; pref. il- not +
liberalis liberal: cf. F. illib['e]ral.]
1. Not liberal; not free or generous; close; niggardly; mean;
sordid. "A thrifty and illiberal hand." --Mason.
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2. Indicating a lack of breeding, culture, and the like;
ignoble; rude; narrow-minded; disingenuous.
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3. Not well authorized or elegant; as, illiberal words in
Latin. [R.] --Chesterfield.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
78 Moby Thesaurus words for "illiberal":
authoritarian, avaricious, biased, bigot, bigoted, borne,
chauvinist, cheap, close, closed, closefisted, constricted,
cramped, creedbound, deaf, deaf to reason, doctrinaire, dogmatist,
fanatic, fanatical, grudging, hardfisted, hidebound, insular,
intolerant, jaundiced, jingo, little, little-minded,
male chauvinist, mean, mean-minded, mean-spirited, mingy, miserly,
narrow, narrow-hearted, narrow-minded, narrow-souled,
narrow-spirited, near, nearsighted, niggardly, one-sided,
opinionated, paltry, parochial, partial, partisan, penny-pinching,
petty, pig, pinchfisted, pinching, prejudiced, provincial,
purblind, racist, rigid, rigorous, save-all, sexist, shortsighted,
small, small-minded, stingy, straitlaced, stringent, stuffy,
superpatriot, tight, tightfisted, ultranationalist, uncatholic,
uncharitable, unchivalrous, ungenerous, unliberal
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