Sample Sentences fordemocratic (editor-reviewed)
democratic as in: a democratic form of government
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The new constitution set up a more democratic government.democratic = based on people choosing leaders by voting (a democracy)
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Her democratic taste in movies led her to choose big superhero blockbusters over the tiny art-house films that critics were more likely to prefer.democratic = not snobbish; favoring what ordinary people like
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He did something which our democratic rulers hadn't, even Benazir, and abolished the law that stated that for a woman to prove she was raped, she had to produce four male witnesses. (source)democratic = relating to the principles of democracy (government where political power comes from majority vote of its people)
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It promotes a return to the democratically elected political systems of the past. (source)democratically = based upon people having ultimate political power by voting for elected representatives
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And that all knowledge must be democratically accessible.† (source)
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"We did overthrow their democratically elected government and install a dictator that terrorized them," pointed out Rory.† (source)
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HE COULD HAVE ACHIEVED THIS GOAL MORE DEMOCRATICALLY; WAS IT NECESSARY TO SHOW THE FACULTY THAT HE DIDN'T NEED THEIR APPROVAL?† (source)
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I should have attacked immediately, while they were off guard, but that seemed undemocratic.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undemocratic means not and reverses the meaning of democratic. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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As Burt would put it, mocking the euphemisms of educational jargon, I'm exceptional—a democratic term used to avoid the damning labels of gifted and deprived (which used to mean bright and retarded) and as soon as exceptional begins to mean anything to anyone they'll change it. (source)democratic = popular
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The final straw may well have been an another antidemocratic uprising—this one unsuccessful—in 401.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "anti-" in antidemocratic means against or opposite. This is the same pattern you see in words like antiviral, antiaircraft, and antisocial.
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Chacko's hero, Comrade E. M. S. Namboodiripad, the flamboyant Brahmin high priest of Marxism in Kerala, became Chief Minister of the first ever democratically elected Communist government in the world.† (source)
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What it boils down to is an undemocratic racial antagonism —which is exactly what our democratic country is supposed to be fighting against.† (source)
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I.F. Stone, in his The Trial of Socrates, describes Critias (a cousin of Plato's) as "the first Robespierre," a cruel and inhumane man "determined to remake the city to his own antidemocratic mold whatever the human cost."† (source)
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Can any law enacted under such circumstances be considered democratically structured?† (source)
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Undemocratic.† (source)
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He could only be charged for his actions during the four years preceding his trial in 399 B.C.E. It appears that Socrates, unchastened by the antidemocratic revolts and their aftermaths, resumed his teachings and once again began attracting a similar band of youthful followers.† (source)
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