illiberally

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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 Jorgenson, Chester E.

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 Shaw, Bernard

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)

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

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 Kerr, Robert