inegalitarian
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of inegalitarian
First recorded in 1935–40; in- 3 + egalitarian
Example Sentences
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As Piketty puts it, “There is no natural, spontaneous process to prevent destabilizing, inegalitarian forces from prevailing permanently.”
From The New Yorker • Oct. 3, 2016
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
Her book is also a strongly argued example of scholarship that views the American citizenship tradition as inegalitarian at its core.
From Salon • Jun. 11, 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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