Sample sentences for REACTIONARY

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someone who is extremely opposed to change; or relating to such a viewpoint

Liberals labeled him a reactionary opposed to any social progress.

"Yes," she said, "they are reactionaries who call themselves progressive: they defend the individual against the state.
John Le Carre -- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
There are political reactionaries who've been saying something close to this for years.
Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The reactionary excitement that gave her a proud self-mastery had not subsided, and she looked at the future with a sense of calm choice.
George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
'It would be very reactionary,' they said, 'no one will believe it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
You are a reactionary, then?
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Is it progressive or reactionary?
C.S. Lewis -- The Screwtape Letters
From the point of view of this formulation, Surrealism in plastic art is a reactionary tendency which is attempting to restore "outside" subject matter.
Clement Greenberg -- Avant-garde and Kitsch
He exhibited sounder judgment in matters of architectural merit than Mr. Austen Heller, the outmoded reactionary who has suddenly turned art critic.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
These narrow-minded reactionaries are still fighting us.
Rudolfo Anaya -- Take the Tortillas out of Your Poetry
You're known as .... as a reactionary who's opposed to Washington policies.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
I think the brother's speech was backward and reactionary!" he said.
Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man
It was one of the reactionary jingo papers of my own district in which from time to time violently abusive references to me were circulated.
Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf
But at this last stroke the reactionaries were so alarmed, that they were, determined to force the executive into action.
William Morris -- News from Nowhere
I hope we are agreed in our conviction that Spirit, however absolute it may be, can never become the advocate of reactionary forces.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
Meanwhile the really new people are very often unobserved by them, or even despised as reactionaries of grovelling tendencies.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
They say the church is reactionary," Silvia Lores says.
Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
She wound up marrying the first dentist she ever worked for—a smug little reactionary twenty years older than she was.
Octavia Butler -- Kindred
He said he would bring out a reactionary force if I needed one.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink
They're a gang of selfish, self-seeking reactionaries.
Alfred Bester -- The Demolished Man

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