illiberally
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There is not a municipal authority of any importance in the country in which a proposal to stamp out the theatre, or even to treat it illiberally, would have a chance of adoption.
From The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet by Bernard Shaw
But, however illiberally stated, it is in all probability just, though for a reason unknown to Cook.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Robert Kerr
Considering the popular excesses in the colonies, Franklin's view was anything but illiberally radical.
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Chester E. Jorgenson
In support of the calumny, passages of the Faerie Queene have been cited, in which the poet has been interpreted as literally and as illiberally as the courtier.
From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by W. (William) Stebbing
It would not do to act illiberally towards a man who combined a knowledge of seafaring with Italian literature, and who had evidently arrived, however unacademically, at certain original judgments and criteria of life.
From Aliens by William McFee
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