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  • adjective Marked by or accepting of social, economic, or political inequality.

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  • adjective Opposing equality.
  • noun One who does not support equality; a subscriber to inegalitarianism.

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Examples

  • Communists and community - when we say communist hypothesis is possible on basis of egalitarian presupposition, communism has been permeated by its opposite, namely inegalitarian tendencies.

    infinite thØught 2009

  • The program “deformed” the economy, “impoverished” the population, and laid “a corrupt, inegalitarian foundation for everything that came after it.”

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • China and India have recorded rapid though highly inegalitarian growth, but remain very poor countries, with enormous internal problems not faced by the West.

    Noam Chomsky: "Losing" the World Noam Chomsky 2012

  • China and India have recorded rapid though highly inegalitarian growth, but remain very poor countries, with enormous internal problems not faced by the West.

    Noam Chomsky: "Losing" the World Noam Chomsky 2012

  • China and India have recorded rapid though highly inegalitarian growth, but remain very poor countries, with enormous internal problems not faced by the West.

    Noam Chomsky: "Losing" the World Noam Chomsky 2012

  • Even in these economically challenging times, Biltmore retains its power to delight, enticing us back to an aesthetically alluring past whose inegalitarian edges have been sanded smooth by time.

    King of the Castles Julia M. Klein 2011

  • We need to start arguing from sanity and pointing out to be how absurdly inegalitarian our society is and how unions have consistently been a greater force for good than for evil and how we should encourage a northern european style union economy. cialis Says:

    Matthew Yglesias » EFCA in International Comparison 2009

  • China and India have recorded rapid though highly inegalitarian growth, but remain very poor countries, with enormous internal problems not faced by the West.

    Noam Chomsky: "Losing" the World Noam Chomsky 2012

  • The program “deformed” the economy, “impoverished” the population, and laid “a corrupt, inegalitarian foundation for everything that came after it.”

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • China and India have recorded rapid though highly inegalitarian growth, but remain very poor countries, with enormous internal problems not faced by the West.

    Noam Chomsky: "Losing" the World Noam Chomsky 2012

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