illiberally
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 Rudolf Erich Raspe
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
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 β Volume 4 The Lincoln-Douglas debates by Abraham Lincoln
