Reactionary Mnemonic
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reactionary
reactionary
/ɹiˈækʃən(ə)ɹi/
Examples
- A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
- In painting, Balestra was staid and reactionary.
- It is reactionary in the extreme and not at all benign.
- Being illiberal is not the sign of being a reactionary.
- That seems awfully repulsive and reactionary in the extreme.
- For reactionary nobles, the king was the guarantor of their hereditary status.
- Gandhi was a masochist and reactionary who worshipped poverty.
- He is the most reactionary in the town and decides that colors are indecent.
- Anybody who's read anything of him knows he's a reactionary warmonger.
- The fuel for this reactionary retrogression obviously has been the gush of Arab petrodollars arming the power players.
an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism
noun
extremely conservative
adjective
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"Re + Act + Story. Refusing to change, repeating old actions like an ancient story."
"Re + Act + Shun + Story. He re-acts to changes and shuns new stories."
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