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reactionary
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  • Maybe, a reactionary remnant of male SONG.†  (source)
  • Sounds like the reactionary moved to the right town.†  (source)
  • It seemed odd to have to explain in a court of law something so fundamental about childhood, but the commitment to harsh punishments for children was so intense and reactionary that we had to articulate these basic facts.†  (source)
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  • In a stroke, the conservative hawk had cast himself as a man of the future and his progressive opponent as a reactionary.†  (source)
  • These narrow-minded reactionaries are still fighting us.†  (source)
  • You're known as ....as a reactionary who's opposed to Washington policies.†  (source)
  • The dis—United States would fragment into several petty, squabbling autocracies, proving the contention of European monarchists and reactionaries that this harebrained experiment in democracy could not last.†  (source)
  • In addition, it called for a national day of work stoppage in protest against the racist and reactionary policies of the government.†  (source)
  • The young man told him that he was the nephew of a well-known revolutionary, but that his parents were incorrigible reactionaries, real dodoes, as he called them.†  (source)
  • Since he did not hesitate to explain his position in public every time he had the chance, for everyone but his own co-religionists he soon became a caricature of the picturesque, reactionary oligarch.†  (source)
  • They're a gang of selfish, self-seeking reactionaries.†  (source)
  • And even those Negroes who had moved down from Canada to Medallion, who remarked every chance they got that they had never been slaves, felt a loosening of the reactionary compassion for Southern-born blacks Sula had inspired in them.†  (source)
  • There are political reactionaries who've been saying something close to this for years.†  (source)
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Oh, they look real, I must admit — Africa in your parlor — but it's all dimensional, superreactionary, supersensitive color film and mental tape film behind glass screens.  (source)
superreactionary = changing in response to what happens
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