01 a. Not liberal; not free or generous; close; niggardly; mean; sordid.
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Not liberal; not free or generous; close; niggardly; mean; sordid.
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2.
Indicating a lack of breeding, culture, and the like; ignoble; rude; narrow-minded; disingenuous.
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3.
Not well authorized or elegant; as, illiberal words in Latin.[R.]