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Meaning of bornert | Babel Free

Adjective
buɳeːʈ

Definitions

narrow-minded (having restricted or rigid views, and being unreceptive to new ideas)

Examples

“Øyvind Aase, "Komponisthjem som må på kartet", Aftenposten, October 12 2011.”

As an artist, Hurum wrote a series of piano pieces, songs, violin and orchestra compositions of indubitable quality, and he was prominent in his day as a radical for Christiania's (i.e. Oslo's) narrow-minded community of critics.

“I think he is incompetent, self-centred, narrow-minded and a disgrace to his party.”
“I think he is incompetent, self-centred, narrow-minded and a shame for his party.”

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