How to Use illiberal in a Sentence

illiberal

adjective

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Democrats and progressives slammed the move as inhumane and illiberal.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 24 Apr. 2021
• 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 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
• But, often, the trend was driven by a shift toward illiberal democracy.
  — Max Fisher, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Nov. 2021
• America is often illiberal and reflexive at the moment, so Facebook and its users are, too.
  — The Editors, National Review, 6 May 2021
• He was drawn to leaders across the world intent on centralizing power in new, illiberal models.
  — New York Times, 8 June 2021
• Obviously the fight is far from over; lots of illiberal Republicans won this week.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 12 Nov. 2022
• Warnings of a crisis of liberalism have become commonplace, as it is assailed by an illiberal right on the one side and a socialist left on the other.
  — Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 17 Dec. 2019
• This liberal Xanadu goes on to become a great kingdom and turns distinctly illiberal.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2023
• The public deserves assurances that these abuses of power, and the equally illiberal means by which they were countered, will never happen again.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 18 Sep. 2021
• The decision in the Knesset could easily lead to even more illiberal measures, from the annexation of the West Bank to the suppression of critical press outlets.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• The Republicans, a most illiberal group of libertarians, tear down the pillars of the temple.
  — New York Times, 6 Oct. 2020
• The tide is turning against illiberal regimes in the existential battle between free and unfree nations.
  — J.d. Crowe | [e-mail], al, 1 Mar. 2022
• And this is one of the big questions of our time: Why do liberal political parties pay the price for the disorder created by illiberal parties?
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2022
• But like previous illiberal regimes in the US, the restrictions will not be limited to the primary targets of these restrictions.
  — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 23 July 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024