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What does parochial mean?

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Adjective
  1. Pertaining to a parish.
  2. Characterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook.
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It was the comics that made me conscious of a life outside the little parochial society of Ireland.
Thus there are some signs that we might get a week of eloquent dispute as opposed to small-minded and parochial bickering.
It was, and still is, customary for the thurifer then to incense the people in parochial churches.
A London agent told her years ago that, if she dropped the parochial Morningside background and the pan-loaf Scotticisms, her sales would double.
Throw in a generous helping of parochial interests, and the result is an overcooked and unappetizing stew.
Blinkered voters get the parochial leaders they want rather than the worldly leaders they presumably need.

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