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in·e·gal·i·tar·i·an

 (ĭn′ĭ-găl′ĭ-târ′ē-ən)
adj.
Marked by or accepting of social, economic, or political inequality.
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inegalitarian

(ˌɪnɪˌɡælɪˈtɛərɪən)
n
(Sociology) a person who holds that people are not equal
adj
1. (Sociology) opposed to equality
2. (Sociology) characterized by inequality
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in•e•gal•i•tar•i•an

(ˌɪn ɪˌgæl ɪˈtɛər i ən)

adj.
not egalitarian; lacking in or disdaining equality.
[1935–40]
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Although Misdemeanorland criticizes the inegalitarian class and racial dynamics of the New York misdemeanor system, it does not explicitly resolve the normative question of how deeply managerial justice is to blame.
It is a particularly inegalitarian society, where a few individuals enjoy a privileged status and the impunity that goes with it while others have to struggle for even their basic rights to be recognised.
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Beginning with the 'Bondwomen' article, motifs imported from Nietzsche's works, such as that of the master and slave moralities, gave Marsden's politics an inegalitarian twist.
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He would never have envisaged the extent that inequality has become a modern evil and the way that the United Kingdom has become the seventh most inegalitarian country in the advanced world.
While the archaic village represented a type of egalitarian democratic organization with a homogeneous population composed exclusively of natives, based on a natural economy dominated by the use of primitive techniques of deforestation, the evolved type of village was organized on inegalitarian rights, where the rich started to dominate the poor (1998b, pp.
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