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- parents who take a very liberal attitude toward letting their children stay out late
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- he always puts liberal amounts of grated cheese on his pizza
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- a doctor who has been very liberal in dispensing low-cost care to patients who could not otherwise afford it
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- cheap,
- close,
- closefisted,
- costive,
- illiberal
- [archaic],
- mingy,
- miserly,
- niggardly,
- parsimonious,
- penurious,
- selfish,
- stingy,
- stinting,
- tight,
- tightfisted,
- uncharitable,
- ungenerous
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What Exactly Is a 'Liberal'?
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“Liberal.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/liberal?show=0&t=1396887615. Accessed 9 December 2019.
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