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1
not broad or open in views or opinions
- an illiberal society that viewed any artistic depiction of the nude as inherently indecent
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- dogmatic
- (also dogmatical),
- opinionated,
- opinionative
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2
unwilling to grant other people social rights or to accept other viewpoints
- some of the more illiberal residents were opposed to having a hospice for AIDS patients in the neighborhood
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3
archaic
lacking in refinement or good taste
- people who had been scorned as illiberal because they were poor
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- coarse,
- common,
- crass,
- crude,
- gross,
- ill-bred,
- incult,
- insensible,
- low,
- lowbred,
- lowbrow,
- raffish,
- rough,
- rough-hewn,
- roughneck,
- rude,
- rugged,
- tasteless,
- uncouth,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- unpolished,
- unrefined,
- vulgar
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- countrified
- (also countryfied),
- provincial,
- rustic
- (also rustical),
- unsophisticated
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“Illiberal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/illiberal. Accessed 27 Sep. 2021.
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The first known use of illiberal was in 1535
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