inegalitarian
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of inegalitarian
First recorded in 1935–40; in- 3 + egalitarian
Example Sentences
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Reasonableness, or rationality, is one test to which we can subject inegalitarian systems or rules.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 6, 2020
For one brief moment in his piece, Schmitz glances against these realities, writing that red-state families "tend to be inegalitarian" and noting that they marry younger and have more children.
From Salon • Jul. 3, 2018
There is also the little matter of will: bubbling up from within, that profoundly inegalitarian drive to stand out, to assert oneself in the face of anonymity and death.
From Slate • Oct. 5, 2012
Living standards had to be raised in Latin America, then as now the world's most inegalitarian region.
From Time • Mar. 18, 2011
They preferred to accept society in all its luxuriant if inegalitarian variety; they made a policy of trying to pump life and vigor into local government.
From Time Magazine Archive
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