parochial
adjective
of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes.
parochially
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a word derived from
parochial.
Example Sentences
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They bob along, cash-rich and content with bossing it parochially, but even that is now at risk.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026
A parochially Protestant culture was beginning to do intellectual trade with the rest of Europe: French realism and naturalism, Darwinism and radical atheism were the imported goods.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 14, 2019
The perennial criticism of the degree as parochially British and old-fashioned can be overdone.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2017
Or, more parochially for reporters but no less hidebound by tradition, not agree to have a protective press pool follow him wherever he goes?
From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2016
In many cases the colonists might have to change—or as we would parochially say, terraform—a world to make it adequately clement.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
