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- adjective Willing to experience new and exotic things (often controversial things) without judging them beforehand.
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Examples
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Fortunately the man's love was a true love, not merely passion, and he was truly broadminded, which is not a very common thing among school-teachers.
Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson
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And it's just such so-called broadminded thinkers as you that encourage these heretics.
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Another soldier's faithless fiancée was less direct than Ahmed's wife; she never formally broke off their engagement, but at the end of a long letter, she mentioned that she had recently married a "broadminded" sailor who wouldn't "mind you writing me occasionally."
Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II 2008
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Before everyone else they can be "broadminded"; but His Presence reveals their hearts to be either fertile ground or hard rock.
The Divine Disturber Julie D. 2005
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However, he is also quick to point out that he is "broadminded:" "Mind you, I got nothing against the good ones but ...
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007
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So clicking on the link is a testament to your broadminded liberality, and it will confuse the heck out of the link diagram engines.
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The truth is that most socialists are opposed to imperialism, which is, in an extremely virulent form, what the wars that Cohen loves actually represent, while most broadminded, liberal people understand that humanity will be the poorer if the entire world is reduced to following the standards approved of by Mr Cohen or being bombed until they agree to do so.
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This necessary global transformation is no fanciful dream better suited to our neighbor who likes Bach and watercolors than it is to us, nor is it an impossible task better left to those younger or more highly educated or more broadminded than we think we are.
Arthur Rosenfeld: Must Humans Go the Way of the Dinosaurs? Arthur Rosenfeld 2011
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Eric Alterman: Think Again: 'Brave, Radical, and Smart' Eric Alterman 2011
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We have politicians in our White House, in both the Congress and the Senate, while our Supreme Court is supposed to be broadminded and make sure to protect us by keeping their eye on them and by interpreting our Constitution without any prejudice.
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