illiberal
adjective
narrowminded; bigoted.
illiberally
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a word derived from
illiberal.
Example Sentences
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The practice was even extended, most illiberally and unjustly, to the graves of old maids, who certainly needed no such insult added to their injury.
From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes
Some people have very illiberally reported that Captain Phipps did not proceed as far as he might have done upon that expedition.
From The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe
It would not do to act illiberally towards a man who combined a knowledge of seafaring with Italian literature, and who had evidently arrived, however unacademically, at certain original judgments and criteria of life.
From Aliens by William McFee
But, however illiberally stated, it is in all probability just, though for a reason unknown to Cook.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Robert Kerr
In support of the calumny, passages of the Faerie Queene have been cited, in which the poet has been interpreted as literally and as illiberally as the courtier.
From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing
