How to Use illiberal in a Sentence

illiberal

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• Cercas is a man of the Left (though not the illiberal Left).
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Apr. 2020
• Saudi Arabia will not be the first illiberal regime to host the IGF.
  — Justin Ling, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2023
• Voting Trump is unlikely to break the back of the illiberal Left.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 27 Oct. 2020
• That kind of state control may be over, even in illiberal Hungary.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2024
• The message was that being illiberal wouldn’t pay, and it was supposed to force other holdouts to come along.
  — Yoram Hazony, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2017
• In the meantime, Xi has steered the country in even more illiberal direction.
  — Laignee Barron / Hong Kong, Time, 4 June 2019
• The one problem with illiberal democracy is that there is no such thing.
  — Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2021
• The problem is on both sides: The voters have become more illiberal and the elites have become less responsive.
  — Mickey Edwards, latimes.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• This coalition ran the gamut from the libertarian to the deeply illiberal, but its factions had enough in common for the top brass to keep things moving along.
  — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
• But many of those worried over the state of campuses are almost resigned to the idea that the forces of illiberal intolerance have won.
  — Stuart Taylor Jr. and Edward Yingling, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2021
• When illiberal forces are on the march, the education system is always in their sights.
  — Ruth Ben-Ghiat, CNN, 14 Oct. 2021
• At best, PiS’s illiberal reforms might be reversed by the next party that wins an election.
  — The Economist, 21 Apr. 2018
• An old point, but one that cannot be stressed enough: If liberal parties fail to keep law and order, people will turn to illiberal parties to do the job.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 Sep. 2024
• The beau ideal of illiberal democracy is, of course, Viktor Orbán of Hungary, who outlined the term in a 2014 speech.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 31 Jan. 2024
• When that form of consent takes an illiberal turn, then it’s no longer called democracy; it’s called populism.
  — Patrick J. Deneen, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023
• These are the sorts of illiberal ideas that have risen in popularity.
  — Richard K. Sherwin, Baltimore Sun, 19 Jan. 2024
• The free West has a far brighter future than illiberal alternatives ... Don’t be fooled.
  — Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 15 Feb. 2020
• So the illiberal left and reactionary right find other ways.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Oct. 2017
• In the Western World, illiberal democracy and far-right nationalism are again on the rise.
  — Lincoln Michel, GQ, 17 Feb. 2018
• For younger Taiwanese, their vision of China is the one Xi has wrought, an illiberal land bent on denying their ability to choose their own leaders.
  — Amy Chang Chien, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2022
• For younger Taiwanese, their vision of China is the one Mr. Xi has wrought, an illiberal land bent on denying their ability to choose their own leaders.
  — New York Times, 5 Aug. 2022
• Nevadans, the operative said, have not been immune to the illiberal rhetoric that has captured so many Americans.
  — Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2022
• The consensus is that American politics was far more illiberal in our past than in our present.
  — Ezra Klein, Vox, 11 Dec. 2018
• And in Eastern Europe, in places like Poland and Hungary, the trend towards outright illiberal democracy is even stronger.
  — Annabelle Timsit, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2017
• Democrats and progressives slammed the move as inhumane and illiberal.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 24 Apr. 2021
• But the road to the dismantling of this illiberal, anti-science, racist, and now antisemitic ideology promises to be long and hard.
  — Richard T. Bosshardt, National Review, 17 Apr. 2024
• Here was another smoking gun: The paper of record devouring its own on command from a legion of woke, illiberal scolds.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 9 Feb. 2021
• The same is the case across Europe, as right-wing strongman figures and illiberal parties — many of them xenophobic — gain ground in places as varied as Germany and Portugal.
  — Amy King & Brian J Griffith / Made By History, TIME, 14 June 2024
• The sense that Russia is growing increasingly illiberal is helping drive a surge of emigration by Jews there to Israel in the past four years.
  — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• Thinking in a binary way about a liberal EU besieged by an illiberal far right externalizes the problem of the far right, obscuring a clearer understanding of how the EU might evolve in the future.
  — Hans Kundnani, Foreign Affairs, 10 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024