Someone who's illiberal is close minded and intolerant. Your illiberal grandfather might constantly complain about "kids today with their long hair and tattoos."
Not liberal; not free or generous; close; niggardly; mean; sordid.
Adjective S.
narrow-minded about cherished opinions
a.
Not liberal; not free or generous; close; niggardly;
mean; sordid.
a.
Indicating a lack of breeding, culture, and the like;
ignoble; rude; narrow-minded; disingenuous.
a.
Not well authorized or elegant; as, illiberal words in
Latin.
Illiberal
Not liberal; not free or generous; close; niggardly; mean; sordid.
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One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.
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