Crossword-Solution: ILLIBERAL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Illiberal | a. | Not liberal; not free or generous; close; niggardly; mean; sordid. |
| Illiberal | a. | Indicating a lack of breeding, culture, and the like; ignoble; rude; narrow-minded; disingenuous. |
| Illiberal | a. | Not well authorized or elegant; as, illiberal words in Latin. |
We have 23 clues for the answer “ILLIBERAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Narow-minded | 1 answer |
| Narrow-minded | 5 answers |
| Narrow minded | 6 answers |
| unenlarged | 28 answers |
| Jaundiced | 33 answers |
| hidebound | 34 answers |
| Opinionated | 40 answers |
| Ungenerous | 41 answers |
| bigoted | 41 answers |
| Partisan | 43 answers |
| grudging | 44 answers |
| begrudging | 46 answers |
| Parochial | 49 answers |
| intolerant | 51 answers |
| Stingy | 51 answers |
| insular | 51 answers |
| Petty | 55 answers |
| Sordid | 56 answers |
| prejudiced | 61 answers |
| Partial | 70 answers |
| Paltry | 73 answers |
| Biased | 82 answers |
| Little ___. | 100 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with ILLIBERAL (5)
Instead of permitting considerable local autonomy as the British did, the Spanish Council of the Indies in Madrid assumed a stance of illiberal, paternal, bureaucratic control.
Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.
Their tendency is gross and illiberal; and if their construction could ever be deemed clever, time has long ago destroyed all its ingenuity.” Sir John did not much understand this reproof; but he laughed as heartily as if he did, and then replied, “Ay, you will make conquests enough, I dare say, one way or other.
Hence: LowÐminded; unworthy; without dignity of sentiment; ignoble; mean; illiberal; menial; as, a base fellow; base motives; base occupations.
The age had not yet adopted, amongst other unworthy retrenchments, that illiberal measure of economy which, supplying by written characters the lack of symbolical representation, closes one open and easily accessible avenue of instruction and emolument against the students of the fine arts.
Quotes with ILLIBERAL (3)
It has been said that if you have Zen in your life, you have no fear, no doubt, no unnecessary craving, no extreme emotions. Neither illiberal attitudes nor egotistical actions trouble you. You serve humanity humbly, fulfilling your presence in this world with loving-kindness and observing your passing as a petal falling from a flower. Serene, you enjoy life in blissful tranquility. Such is the spirit of Zen.---Zen flesh, Zen bones.
At last I see it, I feel it; I penetrate to the predestinated purpose of my life. I am content. Others may have loftier parts to enact; but my mission in this world, Bartleby, is to furnish you with office-room for such period as you may see fit to remain. I believe that this wise and blessed frame of mind would have continued with me, had it not been for the unsolicited and uncharitable remarks obtruded upon me by my professional friends who visited the rooms. But thus it of…
A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1996–2004).