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reactionary
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Definition:one who holds stodgy conservative views in politics
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Michael Portillo: Whilst its imperial court was perhaps the most hide-bound and reactionary in Europe, Vienna had attracted masses of migrants who defied tradition with their new music, art, and ideas.
BBC. Great Continental Railway Journeys: Vienna to Trieste (2015)
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Maude: Now, what happened to your face? Did Jackie Treehorn do that as well?
the dude: No, uh, it was the chief of police of Malibu; a real reactionary.
Joel and Ethan Coen. The Big Lebowski (1998)
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"Because I don't shake hands with a waiter, and a waiter's a hundred times better than he is."
"What a reactionist you are, really! What about the amalgamation of classes?" said Oblonsky.
"Anyone who likes amalgamating is welcome to it, but it sickens me."
"You're a regular reactionist, I see."
"Really, I have never considered what I am. I am Konstantin Levin, and nothing else."
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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He would read as his supper cooked over a small, smokeless campfire, it didn’t matter what: words from some battered and coverless paperback porno novel, or maybe Mein Kampf, or an R. Crumb comic book, or one of the baying reactionary position papers from the America Firsters or the Sons of the Patriots.
Stephen King. The Stand (1990)
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