insular
adjective
narrow-minded or illiberal; provincial.
insularism
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a word derived from
insular.
Example Sentences
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Accordingly, many R&D stalwarts have begun re-organizing themselves to mitigate insularism and take advantage of lone inventors and other external sources of innovation.
From Forbes ● Jun. 7, 2012
Can we wonder that Americans have retorted with some asperity upon criticisms in which any approach to such insolent insularism is even remotely or inadvertently implied?
From America To-day, Observations and Reflections by William Archer
So many voices of so various countries cannot be simply set aside: unless we wrap ourselves in an insolent insularism, we are bound at least to ask what is the meaning of their concurrent testimony.
From Byron by John Nichol
