Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

civil libertarian

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English

Syllables: civil lib-er-tar-i-an
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An advocate of civil liberties.

Example Sentences

"Prosecutors had argued that because Hardy used crack a few hours before her son's birth, she was essentially trafficking drugs to her son. Hardy's lawyers argued that drug trafficking laws do not apply to pregnant women. In addition, civil libertarians said, pregnant women generally have no access to drug treatment programs that might help them."
"Then the D.A. set up an anonymous hotline for people to report suspected predators, a system that civil libertarians feared would be used to target anyone a caller thought might be gay."

Inflected Forms

civil libertarians (plural)

Questions

What does civil libertarian mean?: An advocate of civil liberties.

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