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Definition of illiberal in English: illiberaladjective ɪˈlɪb(ə)r(ə)lɪ(l)ˈlɪb(ə)rəl 1Opposed to liberal principles; restricting freedom of thought or behaviour. illiberal and anti-democratic policies Example sentencesExamples - But does this say anything about the relations likely to develop between liberal and illiberal states?
- Trying to bar all acknowledgments of religion by government officials in the name of preventing offense to listeners seems to me more illiberal than liberal.
- Liberal Democrats have rejected illiberal measures to tackle crime as ineffective and a threat to civil liberties.
- But just how far should and may the liberal state go to curb illiberal behavior?
- And one of the key signs that much of today's left is actually, demonstrably illiberal, intolerant and reactionary, is the way in which this is now a common feature of leftist discourse.
- Increasingly, the US has used a combination of punitive and rewarding strategies to spread liberal ideas in previously illiberal parts of the world.
- Is this state of affairs an acceptable result of a pluralistic liberal system, or is there something fundamentally illiberal about American politics today?
- Hence, it seems that the appeal to ‘tolerance’ does not resolve the conflict between liberal values and illiberal minorities.
- They exploit the values of an open liberal society to reach illiberal ends.
- And yet Scotland has changed in attitudes in the last 20 years, and is as liberal / illiberal as England.
- Even the most liberal society is illiberal when it is a question of survival.
- If we must choose between a society that is in fact liberal and an illiberal society that scrupulously avoids formal racial criteria, we can hardly appeal to the ideals of liberal pluralism to prefer the latter.
- Far more than wanting smokers to stub their fags out, I want the illiberal liberals now running health policy to butt out of people's personal habits.
- Since our island is in the Auckland City area we get to choose the mayor from among an assortment of National Party have-beens - a liberal one and an illiberal one - and an entrepreneur bent on not upsetting the chicken coop.
- However, I think they obscure, rather than remove or defuse, the potential conflicts between liberal principles and illiberal groups.
- Both the existing legislation on racism, and that adumbrated by the prime minister on the ‘preachers of hate’, have an illiberal potential - that is, they do restrict freedom of expression.
- Instead the recent reaction to these decisions has done little to challenge the illiberal, anti-democratic drift of our time.
- It's time they had the courage to join the Liberal Democrats in opposing this expensive and illiberal measure.
- Ours is an age of illiberal liberalism and intolerant tolerance, where we are apparently free to live as we choose - so long as we don't want the right to make ‘wrong’ choices.
- In the increasingly illiberal world of orthodox liberalism, competing ideas are answered not by argument but by a pose of moral superiority and by-the-book invective.
Synonyms intolerant, narrow-minded, unenlightened, puritanical, fundamentalist reactionary, conservative, hidebound undemocratic, anti-democratic, authoritarian, strict, repressive, totalitarian, despotic, tyrannical, draconian, oppressive, fascist 2archaic Uncultured or unrefined. Example sentencesExamples - They tend to be illiberal, boorish, uncultured, arrogant snobs.
- We are not so much worried about being convicted of being illiberal as having the charge even raised in the first place.
Synonyms uncultured, uncultivated, unrefined, lowbrow, philistine, uneducated, unpolished, provincial, rustic 3archaic Not generous; mean. Example sentencesExamples - He is avaricious and ambitious, I fear ungenerous and illiberal; is destitute of heroic daring.
Synonyms thrifty, economical, frugal, canny, careful, prudent, cautious, abstemious, saving, energy-efficient, energy-saving, fuel-efficient, fuel-saving, scrimping, parsimonious
Origin Mid 16th century (in the sense 'vulgar, ill-bred'): from French illibéral, from Latin illiberalis 'mean, sordid', from in- 'not' + liberalis (see liberal). Definition of illiberal in US English: illiberaladjectivei(l)ˈlib(ə)rəlɪ(l)ˈlɪb(ə)rəl 1Opposed to liberal principles; restricting freedom of thought or behavior. illiberal and anti-democratic policies Example sentencesExamples - Instead the recent reaction to these decisions has done little to challenge the illiberal, anti-democratic drift of our time.
- Hence, it seems that the appeal to ‘tolerance’ does not resolve the conflict between liberal values and illiberal minorities.
- If we must choose between a society that is in fact liberal and an illiberal society that scrupulously avoids formal racial criteria, we can hardly appeal to the ideals of liberal pluralism to prefer the latter.
- Increasingly, the US has used a combination of punitive and rewarding strategies to spread liberal ideas in previously illiberal parts of the world.
- In the increasingly illiberal world of orthodox liberalism, competing ideas are answered not by argument but by a pose of moral superiority and by-the-book invective.
- However, I think they obscure, rather than remove or defuse, the potential conflicts between liberal principles and illiberal groups.
- And one of the key signs that much of today's left is actually, demonstrably illiberal, intolerant and reactionary, is the way in which this is now a common feature of leftist discourse.
- It's time they had the courage to join the Liberal Democrats in opposing this expensive and illiberal measure.
- Trying to bar all acknowledgments of religion by government officials in the name of preventing offense to listeners seems to me more illiberal than liberal.
- Since our island is in the Auckland City area we get to choose the mayor from among an assortment of National Party have-beens - a liberal one and an illiberal one - and an entrepreneur bent on not upsetting the chicken coop.
- They exploit the values of an open liberal society to reach illiberal ends.
- But does this say anything about the relations likely to develop between liberal and illiberal states?
- Both the existing legislation on racism, and that adumbrated by the prime minister on the ‘preachers of hate’, have an illiberal potential - that is, they do restrict freedom of expression.
- Ours is an age of illiberal liberalism and intolerant tolerance, where we are apparently free to live as we choose - so long as we don't want the right to make ‘wrong’ choices.
- Even the most liberal society is illiberal when it is a question of survival.
- Far more than wanting smokers to stub their fags out, I want the illiberal liberals now running health policy to butt out of people's personal habits.
- Liberal Democrats have rejected illiberal measures to tackle crime as ineffective and a threat to civil liberties.
- Is this state of affairs an acceptable result of a pluralistic liberal system, or is there something fundamentally illiberal about American politics today?
- But just how far should and may the liberal state go to curb illiberal behavior?
- And yet Scotland has changed in attitudes in the last 20 years, and is as liberal / illiberal as England.
Synonyms intolerant, narrow-minded, unenlightened, puritanical, fundamentalist 2archaic Uncultured or unrefined. Example sentencesExamples - They tend to be illiberal, boorish, uncultured, arrogant snobs.
- We are not so much worried about being convicted of being illiberal as having the charge even raised in the first place.
Synonyms uncultured, uncultivated, unrefined, lowbrow, philistine, uneducated, unpolished, provincial, rustic 3archaic Not generous; mean. Example sentencesExamples - He is avaricious and ambitious, I fear ungenerous and illiberal; is destitute of heroic daring.
Synonyms thrifty, economical, frugal, canny, careful, prudent, cautious, abstemious, saving, energy-efficient, energy-saving, fuel-efficient, fuel-saving, scrimping, parsimonious
Origin Mid 16th century (in the sense ‘vulgar, ill-bred’): from French illibéral, from Latin illiberalis ‘mean, sordid’, from in- ‘not’ + liberalis (see liberal). |