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narrow-minded
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  • People are so narrow-minded.  (source)
    narrow-minded = intolerant of different beliefs
  • 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)
  • I imagined us preparing elaborate Christmas dinners together and her telling me for the hundredth time how narrow-minded she had been before getting to know me.†  (source)
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  • I know that sounds really narrow-minded, but I don't.†  (source)
  • 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.
  • That man is the most narrow minded, suspicious, distrustful person on the entire planet.†  (source)
  • So you think I'm a narrow-minded American bigot?†  (source)
  • 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)
  • You don't want to be narrow minded, do you?†  (source)
  • Just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you —' 'Hem, hem,' said Ginny, in such a good imitation of Professor Umbridge that several people looked around in alarm and then laughed.†  (source)
  • Other possibilities had been in him, possibilities sacrificed, one by one, to Zeena's narrow-mindedness and ignorance.†  (source)
  • Why do you persist in thinking me so narrow minded?†  (source)
  • You're so narrow-minded.†  (source)
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