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Exclusionary

Exclusionary \Ex*clu"sion*a*ry\, a. Tending to exclude; causing exclusion; exclusive.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
exclusionary

"tending to exclude," 1817, from exclusion + -ary.

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exclusionary

a. Acting to exclude something

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Usage examples of "exclusionary".

The Court has intimated recently that the federal exclusionary rule is not a command of the Fourth Amendment, but merely a judicially created rule of evidence which Congress could overrule.

It is being consistently hollowed out and rendered mock by election fraud, exclusionary policies, cronyism, corruption, intimidation, and collusion with Western interests, both commercial and political.

The disintegration, during the second half of the twentieth century, of the organizing principles of international affairs - most crucially Empire in the 1960s and Communism in the 1980s - led to the re-eruption of exclusionary, intolerant, and militant nationalism.

I know he was speaking to me, addressing me, but I took it another way, that it was a list of two people, very exclusionary, a tiny club in which I was one member, Ezekiel being the other.

Eco camps would seize most immediately upon the repressions and exclusionary practices that reason could, and often did, bring in its wake.

Kohler was a member of the infamous Atlantic Wreck Divers, a hard-core and exclusionary dive gang that wore matching skull-and-crossbones patches sewn onto their denim jackets and raised hell on the boats they chartered.

They needed additional exclusionary criteria to further narrow the list of twenty.

German populace is in the actions of enslavement and murder, beginning with the exclusionary legislation of the early thirties and culminating in the Holocaust.

The socialist welfare concerns of the early 1920s gave way to the rightwing political agenda, and the professional and social ideologies growing out of the eugenics movement embraced an exclusionary and vicious assault on sick bodies, disabled limbs, and individual lifestyles that ran counter to Volkish ideals.

In political life, exclusionary legislation, attitudes toward race, the practices of medicine, law, and administration--the sciences contributing to and profiting from the Final Solution--may be understood as political actions, distinguished by delusional percepts regarding the status of Jews, their treatment, and the phobia of them.

And the conscious political and racial agenda becomes a function of what unconsciously impels the group--for example, the exclusionary legislation in Germany during the 1930s.

My second-best girl wore the laced-up, exclusionary clothing of 1877, a black hat and snug black velvet jacket, with a heavy oyster-gray skirt.

Ben Montoya warns solemnly that Biblical analogies are exclusionary and very often offensive in our increasingly diverse society.

Eco camps would seize most immediately upon the repressions and exclusionary practices that reason could, and often did, bring in its wake.

And in those swallowingly vast volumes, amongst those spaces between the spaces between the stars, around suns, dwarfs, nebulae and holes it had been determined from some distance were of no immediate interest or threat, it was of course always possible that some danger waited, some peril lurked, comparatively small measured against the physical scale of the galaxy's present active cultures, but capable - through a developmental peculiarity or as a result of some form of temporal limbo or exclusionary dormancy - of challenging and besting even a representative of a society as technologically advanced and contactually experienced as the Elench.