Sample Sentences for
narrow-minded
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    People are so narrow-minded.  (source)
    narrow-minded = intolerant of different beliefs
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    She felt completely justified in deceiving her aunt and uncle; they were narrow-minded and mistaken.†  (source)
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    So you think I'm a narrow-minded American bigot?†  (source)
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    I want to tell you that you're being narrow-minded.†  (source)
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    He knew as well as she did that they were making fun of his spats and he was filled with bitterness at the narrow-mindedness of Williamsburg.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    That man is the most narrow minded, suspicious, distrustful person on the entire planet.†  (source)
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    Mom and Dad liked to make a big point about never surrendering to fear or to prejudice or to the narrow-minded conformist sticks-in-the-mud who tried to tell everyone else what was proper.†  (source)
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    National one-sidedness and narrow-mindedness become more and more impossible, and from the numerous national and local literatures, there arises a world literature.†  (source)
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    Why do you persist in thinking me so narrow minded?†  (source)
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    When I open a book, the words sort themselves into narrow-minded single file on the page; the mirror-image poems erase themselves half-formed in my mind.†  (source)
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    Other possibilities had been in him, possibilities sacrificed, one by one, to Zeena's narrow-mindedness and ignorance.†  (source)
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    You don't want to be narrow minded, do you?†  (source)
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    His father was a narrow-minded trader and saw idleness and ruin in the aspirations and ambition of his son.†  (source)
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