undemocratic
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Undemocratic politics are bad for the family business: The life of a zoo, like the life of its inhabitants in the wild, is precarious.
From Salon • Apr. 28, 2013
Undemocratic laws would be abolished and victims of human-rights abuses would be paid compensation, he said.
From BusinessWeek • Jan. 23, 2011
Undemocratic though this may be, it had one good effect: because they were protected from the light in a closed book, miniatures did not fade as did exposed paintings.
From Time Magazine Archive
Undemocratic Character at the Opening of the Nineteenth Century.—"The virtue, the spirit, the essence of the House of Commons," once declared Edmund Burke, "consists in its being the express image of the nation."
From The Governments of Europe by Ogg, Frederic Austin
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