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The dogmatic coach is fond of saying, "My way's the right way. Your way's the wrong way!"dogmatic = prone to stating opinions as absolute truth
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I don't care for dogmatic writings. I like writing that presents different perspectives and leaves me to decide what I believe.dogmatic = characterized by stating opinions as absolute truth
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"I recognize the grooved markings around the base, that's an Erumpent horn and it's incredibly dangerous - I don't know where you got it-" "I bought it," said Xenophilius dogmatically. (source)dogmatically = insisting what she says is the absolute truth
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the builders are hammering, replacing the door for (it must be) the fiftieth or sixtieth time ... except that they make small, foolish changes, adding a few more iron pegs, more iron bands, with tireless dogmatism. (source)dogmatism = believing something will work despite evidence that it will not
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Thus it was Hume, Kant said, who "aroused me from my dogmatic slumbers" and caused him to write what is now regarded as one of the greatest philosophical treatises ever written, the Critique of Pure Reason, (source)dogmatic = not questioning beliefs
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...talking in voices that, almost without exception, sounded collegiately dogmatic, as though each young man ... was clearing up, once and for all, some highly controversial issue... (source)dogmatic = confident of absolute truth
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the Principal is desirous that my thesis should be dogmatic, (source)dogmatic = state opinions as absolute truth
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She had, likewise, a fierce and a hard eye: it reminded me of Mrs. Reed's; she mouthed her words in speaking; her voice was deep, its inflections very pompous, very dogmatical, — very intolerable, in short.† (source)
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His gentleness was never tinged by dogmatism, and his instructions were given with an air of frankness and good nature that banished every idea of pedantry. (source)dogmatism = stating opinions as absolute truth
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Dogmatically speaking, I believe that is sound. (source)Dogmatically = stating opinions strongly
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In his manner was something of the dogmatist.† (source)dogmatist = a person who states his or her opinions as absolute truth
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We're not stubborn, theoretical dogmatists-we're flexible. (source)dogmatists = people who state their opinions as absolute truth
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There I dogmatize, there I laugh and there the newspapers sometimes make me scold; and in dogmatizing, laughing, and scolding I find delight, and why should not I enjoy it, since no one is the worse for it and I am the better.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
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His undogmatic ways were such that Christian, Jew, Monist, or Moslem felt at ease; his meetings were well attended.† (source)undogmatic = not prone to stating opinions as absolute truthstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undogmatic means not and reverses the meaning of dogmatic. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Whether due to his general bent for paradox or out of courtesy, he called Hegel a "Catholic" thinker; and in response to the priest's smiling question about the basis for this comment, inasmuch as Hegel was actually the state philosopher of Prussia and generally considered a Protestant, Leo had replied: the very term "state philosopher" confirmed he was correct in pointing to Hegel's Catholicity in the religious sense, if not, of course, in regard to Church dogmatics.† (source)
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"You're off colour, that's what's the matter with you," Henry dogmatised.† (source)unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it dogmatized.
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