All 5 Uses of
reactionary
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- "I know you've come on most important business, Dmitri Fyodorovitch; it's not a case of presentiment, no reactionary harking back to the miraculous (have you heard about Father Zossima?†
Chpt 8
- It was merely stated that the criminal, whose approaching trial was making such a sensation—retired army captain, an idle swaggerer, and reactionary bully—was continually involved in amorous intrigues, and particularly popular with certain ladies "who were pining in solitude."†
Chpt 11
- 'It would be very reactionary,' they said, 'no one will believe it.†
Chpt 11 *
- I laughed with the men at the newspaper office; 'It's reactionary to believe in God in our days,' I said, 'but I am the devil, so I may be believed in.'†
Chpt 11
- In fact, he sang 'hosannah' and overdid it so, that some persons there of lofty ideas wouldn't shake hands with him at first—he'd become too rapidly reactionary, they said.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
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(reactionary) someone who is extremely opposed to change; or relating to such a viewpoint