Die woord "liberaal" het 'n paar woordeboekbetekenisse, maar dit hou gewoonlik verband met vrygewigheid of oopkop. Hier is 'n paar definisies:
Op 'n vrygewige of liberale wyse; met vrygewigheid of oorvloed.\nVoorbeeld: Sy het die wyn mildelik geskink en seker gemaak dat almal 'n vol glas het.
Op 'n manier wat oopkop, verdraagsaam of nie streng is nie.\nVoorbeeld: Hy het die reëls liberaal geïnterpreteer, wat 'n mate van buigsaamheid in die toepassing daarvan moontlik gemaak het.
Op 'n manier wat nie beperk of beperk word deur eng of streng idees nie.\nVoorbeeld: Sy het die probleem vrygewig benader en 'n wye reeks moontlike oplossings oorweeg.
Oor die algemeen impliseer "liberaal" 'n gevoel van vrygewigheid, openheid en buigsaamheid, hetsy in terme van van gee, dink of optree.
1. He looked down to see his white school shirt splashed liberally with red.
2. Anne watched intently as Eliza liberally laced one of her hands with the creamy mixture.
3. I would like him to be an honour to his family, as we live in days when our kings liberally reward learning that is virtuous and worthy for learning without virtue is a pearl on a dunghill.
4. To conclude, Ricote liberally recompensed and rewarded as well the renegade as the men who had rowed and the renegade effected his readmission into the body of the Church and was reconciled with it, and from a rotten limb became by penance and repentance a clean and sound one.
5. I applied moisturizer liberally on every shaved area, dried off and stood naked in my room with a bottle of water.
6. Once dark hair, liberally streaked with gray, cut in a short style that was both youthful and flattering.
7. Even the college-bred and so called liberally educated men here and elsewhere have really little or no acquaintance with the English classics and as for the recorded wisdom of mankind, the ancient classics and Bibles, which are accessible to all who will know of them, there are the feeblest efforts any where made to become acquainted with them.
8. He washed and made use of a disposable razor left by his room service and rubbed his teeth liberally with some baking soda.
9. Someone had left shampoo and male smelly stuff which they applied liberally because their clothes were getting a little bit on the nose.
10. He was out of shape, and possibly drank too liberally but he was a veteran of the Io Company and had served in Six during the Asteroid War.