Antonym: radical. Similar words: reaction, dictionary, functionary, dictionary order, stationary, take action, probationary, revolutionary. Meaning: [rɪ'ækʃənerɪ] n. an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism. adj. extremely conservative.
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61. Accounts of cruel tortures in the jails of the reactionary government would curl one's hair.
62. The sinister purpose of the reactionary ruling class was covered over with pretentious rhetoric.
63. We are preparing to have negotiations with the reactionary Nanking government.
64. Riddled with a thousand gaping wounds , this reactionary clique is now beset with difficulties and contradictions both in internal and external affairs.
65. He is a dyed-in-the-wool reactionary - there is no changing his opinions.
66. And because they think only of Joe Smith , they end by advocating reactionary and nonsensical policies.
67. Both were unpopular: Waugh as an effete reactionary; Orwell for his unfashionable anti-Stalinism.
68. However, he was denounced as a reactionary academic during the Cultural Revolution in the late Sixties, and exiled to the countryside.
69. Mobilize the masses to tear down reactionary posters on street walls.
70. This definition rendered a historic service by shattering the unscientific, reactionary view which regarded man as a purely spiritual being or a simple biological being.
71. It was also much less reactionary and impervious than that word connotes.
72. He spent his two years in Newgate prison editing his newspaper - and stoking up the anger that would make him a formidable conservative radical, or reactionary revolutionary.
73. The reactionary authorities, being beneficiaries themselves, could not and would not close down on speculation.
74. According to the authors opinion, the reactionary character of monopolistic consciousness shouldn tbe ignored.
75. The Government of the Qing Dynasty collaborated with foreign reactionary forces to crush down the peasant uprising of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
76. No one will raise moral psychology of the question of obesity, for fear of sounding uncompassionate and reactionary.
77. Liang Qichao used such dualist concepts as reactionary and herald, restoration and emancipation,(sentencedict.com) etc.
78. Danton returned to Paris to face the Revolutionary Tribunal he had created: the rebel had become the reactionary.
79. Discussing the looks of a female pop star always feels a bit reactionary; even the most evenhanded, politically committed critic probably doesn't do it as often for male pop stars.
80. The left have tried to foist on her the image of a limited suburban reactionary.
81. The people finally rose up and overthrew the reactionary regime.
82. Nay more, they are reactionary, for they try to roll back the wheel of history.
83. WE DENY that inerrancy is a doctrine invented by scholastic Protestantism, or is a reactionary position postulated in response to negative higher criticism.
84. He was free from all sycophancy or obsequiousness in the face of the reactionary ruling class.
85. So retrogressive, in fact, was the new court that on occasion it tended to be blindly reactionary in cases involving economic and social policies.
86. The reactionary officials took bribes insatiably,[http://Sentencedict.com] giving not the least care to the future of the nation.
87. Better let the reactionary professors, lecturers, assistants and students spew out their venom and speak without any inhibitions.
88. The reactionary propaganda of "three gangs" of national splittism show the reactionary essence of all their actions.
89. Under the reactionary rule the people were not given the freedom of speech.
90. In the identification of Bolshevism and Stalinism they render the best possible service to the Thermidorians and precisely thereby play a clearly reactionary role.
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