Sample sentences for NARROW-MINDED

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Definition

intolerant of different beliefs; or lacking breadth of view

ignorant and narrow minded

narrow minded = intolerant of different beliefs; or lacking breadth of view

a brilliant but narrow-minded judge
Do you think I am narrow-minded?
Henrik Ibsen -- A Doll's House

narrow-minded = intolerant of different beliefs; or lacking breadth of view

People are so narrow-minded.
C.S. Lewis -- The Magician's Nephew

narrow-minded = intolerant of different beliefs

He blushed for the narrow-minded counsel which he was obliged to expose.
Jane Austen -- Northanger Abbey
Nobody was narrow-minded enough to rake up against her the half-forgotten facts of her father's past and her own origin.
Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
Haven't the ignorant, narrow-minded curs reviled me as an enemy of the people?
Henrik Ibsen -- An Enemy of the People
And you, you are a pompous, narrow-minded old—
Harper Lee -- Go Set a Watchman
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.
Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

(Editor's note: 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.)

After all, some of these fellows are so darn cautious and narrow-minded that they're prejudiced against a fellow that talks right out in meeting."
Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
Other possibilities had been in him, possibilities sacrificed, one by one, to Zeena's narrow-mindedness and ignorance.
Edith Wharton -- Ethan Frome

(Editor's note: 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.)

These narrow-minded reactionaries are still fighting us.
Rudolfo Anaya -- Take the Tortillas out of Your Poetry
To Yurii Andreievich this gloomy and unsociable giant, soulless and narrow-minded, seemed subnormal, almost a degenerate.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
I know that sounds really narrow-minded, but I don't.
Sara Shepard -- Pretty Little Liars
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.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
Not that Heath was hateful or anything like that, but he was a typical teenage Okie boy, which tended to mean narrow-minded homophobe.
P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Betrayed
And whereas their offspring are narrow-minded, if cunning, Lethrblaka have all the intelligence of a dragon.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
She felt completely justified in deceiving her aunt and uncle; they were narrow-minded and mistaken.
Elizabeth George Speare -- The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Forget on narrow-minded earth The Mighty Yawn that gave you birth.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
Just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you —'
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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