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reactionary
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  • These narrow-minded reactionaries are still fighting us.†  (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)
  • 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)
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  • But for this mass struggle session, the victims were the reactionary bourgeois academic authorities.†  (source)
  • They're a gang of selfish, self-seeking reactionaries.†  (source)
  • She called him a bourgeois reactionary.†  (source)
  • Meanwhile the really new people are very often unobserved by them, or even despised as reactionaries of grovelling tendencies.†  (source)
  • In a stroke, the conservative hawk had cast himself as a man of the future and his progressive opponent as a reactionary.†  (source)
  • But at this last stroke the reactionaries were so alarmed, that they were, determined to force the executive into action.†  (source)
  • For that is what animals are, conservative, one might even say reactionary.†  (source)
  • The newspapers were in ecstacies, and all the most fervent of the reactionaries now came to the front; men who in ordinary times were forced to keep their opinions to themselves or their immediate circle, but who began to look forward to crushing once for all the Socialist, and even democratic tendencies, which, said they, had been treated with such foolish indulgence for the last sixty years.†  (source)
  • Anything else was reactionary, racist, anti-intellectual.†  (source)
  • Thus stimulated, the reactionist plot exploded probably before it was ripe; but this time the people and their leaders were forewarned, and, before the reactionaries could get under way, had taken the steps they thought necessary.†  (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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