unexpansive

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Adj.	1.	unexpansive - showing no tendency to expand; "unexpansive bodies" expansive - able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion; "Expansive materials"; "the expansive force of fire"
	2.	unexpansive - not given to high spirits or effusiveness; "an unexpansive man" restrained - under restraint

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For instance, Young stated that he supported the ideal of a classless society, yet when asked in the 2000s whether the book was arguing for resistance to the nascent elitism of the meritocracy by promoting 'the comprehensive idea', replied with an unexpansive but unequivocal 'no'.

Meritocracy as plutocracy: the marketising of 'equality' under neoliberalism

City's unexpansive shape played into the hands of their hosts early on, with Real bearing down on goal on more than one occasion.