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democratic as in: a democratic form of government
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It is a democratic country.democratic = having democracy (where citizens have ultimate political power by voting for elected representatives)
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Movies are a democratic art form.democratic = appealing to most people
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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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"We did overthrow their democratically elected government and install a dictator that terrorized them," pointed out Rory.† (source)democratically = in a manner based upon people having ultimate political power by voting for elected representatives
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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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And that all knowledge must be democratically accessible.† (source)democratically = in a manner based upon people having ultimate political power by voting for elected representatives
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I should have attacked immediately, while they were off guard, but that seemed undemocratic.† (source)undemocratic = not relating to the principles of democracy or representation of the peoplestandard 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)antidemocratic = working against the principles of democracy or representation of the peoplestandard 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)democratically = in a manner based upon people having ultimate political power by voting for elected representatives
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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)undemocratic = not relating to the principles of democracy or representation of the people
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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)antidemocratic = working against the principles of democracy or representation of the people
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His name, he said, was Johnny Paul Koroma, and he was leader of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC), which had been formed by a group of Sierra Leone Army (SLA) officers to overthrow the democratically elected President Tejan Kabbah.† (source)democratically = in a manner based upon people having ultimate political power by voting for elected representatives
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Undemocratic.† (source)Undemocratic = not relating to the principles of democracy or representation of the people
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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)antidemocratic = working against the principles of democracy or representation of the people
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They had free, democratic societies, and they left behind rich cultural legacies.† (source)
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Some blame race relations and the Democratic Party's embrace of the civil rights movement.† (source)
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Indeed, he delighted in ridiculing the policies of the Democratic Party and was a vocal admirer of Ronald Reagan.† (source)
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I told my father that his "Ship 'Em Abroad" program didn't sound too democratic to me, that perhaps included in the freedoms in this country is the freedom to be apathetic.† (source)
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I read and reread one section in particular: The Army was living the democratic ideal ahead of the rest of America.† (source)
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Mary Elizabeth wrote an article about the Democratic candidates.† (source)
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But Mr. P isn't a Democratic-, Republican-, Christian-, or Devil-worshipping freak.† (source)
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Bodily functions at least remain democratic.† (source)
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The new regime will maintain the utmost respect for principles, both Islamic and democratic.† (source)
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He was never much for democratic procedures in the first place.† (source)
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Hester had her nose broken while rioting at the site of the Democratic Party's national convention.† (source)
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In I wandered, amidst holiday crowds, doing my best to look as if I belonged and ignoring the police who seemed to be standing around nearly everywhere I looked and feeling bewildered and uneasy as the great democratic world swept and surged around me once more: grandparents, students, weary young-marrieds and little kids dragging backpacks; shopping bags and Starbucks cups, rattle of suitcase wheels, teenagers collecting signatures for Greenpeace, back in the hum of human things.† (source)
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To prosper, a zoo needs parliamentary government, democratic elections, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of association, rule of law and everything else enshrined in India's Constitution.† (source)
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