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Meanings of close-minded in English
Having restricted or rigid views, and being unreceptive to new ideas.
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Examples for "myopic"
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He was also myopic and his hands fluttered restlessly throughout the evening.
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My viewpoint may have been immature and myopic-butthe feeling was real.
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The journey of pregnancy is clearly defined through the myopic Hollywood lens.
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Though the man chooses a concave glass he is not really myopic.
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The guy who played Chuck, William Kirby Cullen, was myopic or something.
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We have seen teachers, doctors and academics hidebound in a managerial economy.
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It is the straight and narrow path followed by conventional, hidebound particles.
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But a hidebound and peripheral court was an anti-climax after cosmopolitan Rome.
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You'll have to explain matters to the Admiralty, and they're dreadfully hidebound.
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It's a place where the clichés of hidebound British conservatism suddenly ring true.
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Madame X. C. V. a narrowminded Greek, was naturally bigoted and superstitious.
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William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, an honest and pious, though narrowminded, man, used great freedom.
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Are these the negative and narrowminded influences which Mr Hogan would like to see removed from Irish society?
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We were prejudiced, narrowminded.
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A former UCD registrar has described as "extraordinarily narrowminded" a decision by the university that it will not be officially represented at the (...)
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To middle-ground voters, on this issue Republicans appear unreasonable and closed-minded.
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He also liked to tell me that religious people are closed-minded.
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Science is occasionally accused of being a closed-minded or stubborn enterprise.
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This jury, once hostile and closed-minded, was now open and receptive to the defense.
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Jondalar noticed that everyone seemed more curious than closed-minded.
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May you close down a few branches just for being this narrow minded.
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This is rather narrow minded, I think, for this free and enlightened country.
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If they're not narrow minded and bigoted they make good companions.
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Why do you persist in thinking me so narrow minded?
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Mr Wohlgemuth accuses scientists of being narrow minded and arrogant.
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Yes thank you Cheryll for being nothing but a small-minded heartless person.
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Such is the measure of the understanding of these small-minded, contemptible people.
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Madam, - Your Editorial on Charlie McCreevy was mealy mouthed and small-minded.
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This marshmallow man was every bit as small-minded as the mortal men.
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The town's denizens are small-minded, prejudicial folk prone to hysteria and fear.
Usage of close-minded in English
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But, like the Vatican in Galileo's time, the scientific community is close-minded.
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How thrilling to be outraged at the close-minded ignorance of our parents.
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I mean I don't have to be as close-minded as you obviously are!
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Don't construe this as a mandate to be close-minded and eschew other forms of culture.
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But in hip-hop, people can often be very close-minded.
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I could not imagine a more close-minded statement.
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They're still close-minded about women, which is ridiculous.
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They wish specifically to exist without that dichotomy, to live outside of a close-minded society's quality judgments about them.
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Are you willfully close-minded?
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They're still close-minded about women, which is ridiculous. (This story has been corrected to fix year Taliban rule ended)
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Never one to shy away from controversy, while supporting Mayor Vince Gray, Marion Barry called out White voters for being close-minded.
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Like any human activity, science is subject to the prejudices and personality defects of individuals; scientists can indeed be arrogant and close-minded.
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In particular, he noted the sour expression of Alys Carroll, a talented but close-minded young woman who had been raised among the Butlerians.
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But I was troubled that so many of his commenters saw in the story a portrait of a right rebel wronged by a close-minded establishment.
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Tourism Minister Simon Birmingham has taken a swipe at Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, saying leaders who stick to hard border closures are "close-minded".
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Some of them are close-minded and intensely orthodox; but the majority are wide-awake, and won't pray for fair weather until it has given over raining.