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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
- People are so narrow-minded.C.S. Lewis -- The Magician's Nephew
- 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
- 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
- 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
narrow-minded = intolerant of different beliefs; or lacking breadth of view
narrow-minded = intolerant of different beliefs
(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.)
(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.)
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