reactionary
IPA: riˈækʃʌnɛri
noun
- (politics) One who is opposed to progress and change and wants to reverse it, wishing for a return to an alleged golden age of the past.
adjective
- (politics) Favoring a return to an alleged golden age of the past; anti-progressive.
- (chemistry) Of, pertaining to, participating in, or inducing a chemical reaction.
- In reaction to; as a result of.
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Examples of "reactionary" in Sentences
- In painting, Balestra was staid and reactionary.
- A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
- It is reactionary in the extreme and not at all benign.
- Being illiberal is not the sign of being a reactionary.
- That seems awfully repulsive and reactionary in the extreme.
- Gandhi was a masochist and reactionary who worshipped poverty.
- Anybody who's read anything of him knows he's a reactionary warmonger.
- He is the most reactionary in the town and decides that colors are indecent.
- For reactionary nobles, the king was the guarantor of their hereditary status.
- The fuel for this reactionary retrogression obviously has been the gush of Arab petrodollars arming the power players.
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