illiberally

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I don't want to be unjustly accused of dealing illiberally or unfairly with an adversary, either in court or in a political canvass or anywhere else.

From The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 4 The Lincoln-Douglas debates by Lincoln, Abraham

Some people have very illiberally reported that Captain Phipps did not proceed as far as he might have done upon that expedition.

From The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Raspe, Rudolf Erich

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 Stebbing, W. (William)

But, as such, I am a Christian; so, and most piously, yet not illiberally, is the Bishop.'

From The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny

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 McFee, William