prohibitionist
IPA: proʊʌbˈɪʃʌnɪst
noun
- A person who agrees with, or advocates a prohibition, especially the outlawing of the sale of alcoholic beverages
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Examples of "prohibitionist" in Sentences
- When are the news agencies going to start calling the prohibitionist on their bull crap?
- Fredoso seems more intellectually honest than your average prohibitionist, which is not a very high bar.
- As the pious prohibitionist looks longingly at a file photo of Margaret, he flogs himself with a leather belt.
- Yes, I'm a "prohibitionist" because I don't think that we should laugh and excuse someone who's driving drunk until they kill someone.
- What we have right now is essentially a situation of a kind of prohibitionist policy at the border and a laissez-faire policy in the workplace.
- I said it last year and I will say it again … NY wine stores are wasting valuable time and money keeping protectionist and prohibitionist laws in place.
- It appears that the authors have crafted a neo-prohibitionist sin tax, perhaps fueled by fundie sentiment, and may stand to see financial benefit if the initiative were to receive a majority of votes cast.
- So Canzano, Bergin, and every prohibitionist who scoffs at people in serious pain treating it with a non-toxic herb pull out their calculators and exclaim "90% of cardholders are using it for pain, not glaucoma or cancer!"
- Translation: the fraternity chose to retain their own legal rights including the right to direct their own lives themselves and so are being sued for failure to adopt a long discredited "prohibitionist" set of policies. seriouscat (Anonymous) says …
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