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  • adjective Illiberal.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ liberal

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Examples

  • Then, the WH responds with a decidely "unliberal" response.

    Hot Air ? Top Picks Allahpundit 2010

  • He's able to handle a debate like this much better and this is a topic on which he'd have the "unliberal" opinion.

    Blue Mass. Group - Front Page 2009

  • Hopefully you will work on your friends to see that these types of people are the most unliberal people.

    Consider the source « BuzzMachine 2005

  • Writing on Lib Dem Voice he's asked whether he is the only one that finds it "tribal, patronising, horribly on message in an unliberal way and above all - quite dull?"

    Archive 2007-10-01 2007

  • Head throbbing from not unliberal potations due to the seasons festivities this was no pleasant task.

    Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2

  • You've got practically all the unliberal-minded people in the United

    Potash and Perlmutter Settle Things Montague Glass 1905

  • Morris said, "but the backing of such liberal-minded Americans wouldn't help the Germans none, because there would be a whole lot of husky parties in khaki going into Germany and acting in such an unliberal-minded way that the Germans would wish they would have paid the indemnity voluntarily on the instalment plan rather as have it collected all in one sum by levy and sale under an execution."

    Potash and Perlmutter Settle Things Montague Glass 1905

  • Otherwise, the said editor would have known that the central doctrine of Swedenborgianism being the Godhead of Jesus Christ, no Unitarian, liberal or unliberal, could have produced works Swedenborgian in character, and that William and Mary Howitt being Unitarian (which I believe they are) couldn't have a tendency at the same time to Swedenborgianism, unless it should be possible for them to be bolt upright with a leaning to the floor.

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898

  • Otherwise, the said editor would have known that the central doctrine of Swedenborgianism being the Godhead of Jesus Christ, no Unitarian, liberal or unliberal, could have produced works

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1833

  • Obama is now proposing cuts to federal spending, a pretty unliberal thing to do.

    OpEdNews - OpEdNews.Com Progressive, Tough Liberal News and Opinion 2010

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  • Wiktionary editor clearly a bit peeved.

    January 22, 2020