What is "narrow-minded"

Usage examples of "narrow-minded".

I should have said not in the least spoiled by his Christianity, for he is neither exclusive, nor narrow-minded, nor opposed to progress.

Instead of increased relations between Moors and foreigners tending to friendship, the average foreign settler or tourist is far too bigoted and narrow-minded to see any good in the native, much less to acknowledge his superiority on certain points.

Better Lucas thought her a narrow-minded, straitlaced prig than that he learn the real truth, which was that she was an idiot.

Society was ruled by narrow-minded, profoundly incurious people, predatory businessmen, dull squires, bishops, politicians who could quote Horace but had never heard of algebra.

You have even debased the noblest and most beneficial art that ever engaged the study of mankind, which cannot be too much cultivated, and too little restrained, in seeking to limit the practice of it to a set of narrow-minded, illiberal wretches, who, like the lowest handicraftsmen, claim the exclusive privileges of a corporation.

Secondly, the bourgeois, whom he called philistines, the humbly living, contented, narrow-minded, timid, whom he did not hate as much as he despised them with fervid scorn.

His lying anathemas raise trouble for me all through the Empire, from narrow-minded priests and over-religious laymen alike.

Anyone motivated by greed for mere money (as opposed to the greed for power, knowledge and status) is swiftly written off as a narrow-minded breadhead whose interests can only be corrupt and contemptible.

But when men think that these beggarly contrivances may supply a resource for the evils which result from breaking up the foundations of public order, and from causing or suffering the principles of property to be subverted, they will, in the ruin of their country, leave a melancholy and lasting monument of the effect of preposterous politics and presumptuous, short-sighted, narrow-minded wisdom.

The programs were too narrow-minded to branch off into other plot lines, too stupid to stop and wait if you got up to change your personality or check your portfolio.

Balkan had also been managing the lesser Head of Warrior Studies role, but Rothen had heard the man suggest that the position would be filled by another at a fu­ture date, so perhaps Garrel's sly, narrow-minded ways would be counter-balanced by a Warrior of more sensible character.

Zeusman also decried the psychiatric sciences, so his attitude was at least consistently narrow-minded.

So his main personal impression of Orthodox rabbis came from what he'd seen in Israel—which, to him, had been their constant interference in Israel's politics, their narrow-minded obsessions, the readiness with which they threw their political weight around.

She went on to depict the sorcerer Zulkeh as a narrow-minded pedant whose cloistered existence had given him no concept of the true essence of the obnoxious little loudmouth, so well-known and despised by the common run of mankind, the which would eagerly scrape together their few coins to see the world rid of this plague.