permissive(LIBERAL)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Narrow-minded
be set in your waysidiom
be wearing blindersidiom
be wearing blinkersidiom
blinker
blinkered
closed-minded
myopia
myopic
myopically
narrow-minded
narrow-mindedly
narrow-mindedness
non-thinking
prissy
provinciality
provincially
prude
prudish
unreconstructed
unthinking

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Examples of illiberal

illiberal
While political considerations were clearly vital to politicians' implementation decisions, these illiberal initiatives were developed, framed and delivered by policy elites.
In the process of instructing the world, they developed a political culture that nourishes both liberal dreams and illiberal monsters.
Each of these threats - and many others - provoked distinctly illiberal rules and prohibitions.
Yet the illiberal tendencies of these early modern tolerationists should not surprise us.
Finally, the association is also accused of espousing illiberal views in the field of personal rights.
Or perhaps not, since the silencing argument does not succeed even on illiberal terms.
In short, this is a guided democracy, a sort of 'illiberal democracy'.
In these regimes, the erosion of rights associated with illiberal democracy does not appear to have taken place.
As demonstrated above, the notion of property-inthe-self is controversial, with distinctly illiberal undertones.
The argument that deep connections exist between toleration and legitimation is best supported through analogy with illiberal and preliberal societies.
Under such a circumstance, ethnic conflict would likely diminish when illiberal leaders either leave power or are forced to embrace more liberal policies and institutions.
Moreover, such a 'liberalism' threatens to become highly illiberal.
The red scare stands as just one in a long line of illiberal deliriums reaching back to the early seventeenth century.
In the colonies, the logic of dumping went down well with the socially illiberal and fiscally conservative colonial state.
Second, if there were such an argument, it would allow the state to limit our liberty in a way that seems highly illiberal.
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