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Meanings of reactionary in English
Portuguese
ultraconservador Catalan
reaccionari An extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism.
Describes a political view that favors previous political aspects or states over present ones.
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Usage of reactionary in English
1
That the young man had been quite right; Miller was a reactionary.
2
Her offer of a state visit is appeasement of a reactionary bully.
3
Tells about a deal J. made to get the rich reactionary vote.
4
Pfitzner's reactionary ideas helped advance his career during the First World War.
5
He's far less reactionary when his veterans show a dip in form.
6
The reactionary tendency was in no sense confined to the Southern States.
7
Say it does matter and you'll be condemned as a binary reactionary.
8
The reactionary institutions established by Sulla in 666 were of course overthrown.
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Even the reactionary press speaks in a kindly way about these men.
10
This was not a reactionary polemic against collectivism or the welfare state.
11
From that time the reactionary movement obtained complete possession of the town.
12
Nevertheless, the contest between the progressive and reactionary parties was not inactive.
13
Russell is known to be a reactionary of the most pronounced type.
14
He made merry over what he called the arguments of reactionary patriotism.
15
Gil Shaham is something of a reactionary among virtuosos of the violin.
16
Wu Han was the first of many charged with bourgeois, reactionary tendencies.
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