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more equal

Adjective

Meaning

more equal (comparative form only)

(idiomatic, ironic) Ostensibly equal, but more privileged in reality.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell

No other virtue makes man more equal to the angels, than the imitation of their way of life. John Cassian

The Commonwealth is a mere club, but it has become like an 'Animal Farm' where some members are more equal than others. How can Blair claim to regulate and direct events and still say all of us are equals? Robert Mugabe

Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded. Walt Kelly

One hundred years after the Declaration that 'all men are created equal,' there began to gather in Newport a colony of the rich, determined to show that some Americans were conspicuously more equal than others. Alistair Cooke

These days, the American dream is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador, Venezuela and Argentina, where incomes are actually more equal today than they are in the land of Horatio Alger. Who's the banana republic now? Bernie Sanders

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