The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word ILLIBERAL
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result ILLIBERAL
- Bigoted Illinois artist involved in defamation
- How mean one little conservative’s counterpart is, according to Private Willis
- Involved in libel, liar is intolerant
- Looking back, some declare Bill is intolerable
- “Reactionary” 9 19 down described by, oddly enough, Eric Blair broadcast
- Wrong part of Europe – not Italy, Luxembourg – represented as intolerant
- One student politician is reactionary
- In France he joins a party that’s narrow-minded
- Narrow-minded libel liar put about
- Mean one-line defamatory text about artist
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What does ILLIBERAL mean?
ILLIBERAL noun- One opposed to liberal principles.
- Restrictive of individual choice and freedom.
- Narrow-minded; bigoted.
- Ungenerous, stingy.
- Not adhering to either liberalism or neoliberalism.