doctrinaire
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A fun game to play is to ask your most politically doctrinaire friends if there’s a policy they secretly support that cuts against their usual views.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025
"The modernism that was around before the 1980s was very grey, restrictive, utilitarian and quite doctrinaire really," Farrell said.
From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025
His harping on this point could come across as doctrinaire.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2025
But the idea is first stolen by one of her colleagues, then shot down by another as insufficiently doctrinaire.
From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2024
The Christmas book has the tone of a doctrinaire protest against doctrinaires, and, as Forster has pointed out, is manifestly written under the influence of Carlyle.
From Dickens English Men of Letters by Ward, Adolphus William, Sir
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
