illiberal

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Ms Bird said she was called "an Illiberal Terf", suspended from the Lib Dems and banned from standing as an MP for a decade.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2025

He was booked to give a talk, Illiberal Truths, about the furore during the last general election over whether or not he believed gay sex was a sin.

From BBC • Jul. 22, 2018

In one of his early books, "Illiberal Education," for example, he attacked the rise of multiculturalism on college campuses.

From Salon • Jun. 15, 2018

Many of the best quotes and anecdotes in Illiberal Education turn out to be secondhand prose.

From Time Magazine Archive

Illiberal, il-lib′ėr-al, adj. niggardly: mean, narrow in opinion.—v.t.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various