Thesaurus / factional
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- partisan
- dissident
- doctrinaire
- fanatic
- limited
- local
- nonconformist
- provincial
- splinter
- bigoted
- clannish
- cliquish
- dogmatic
- fanatical
- hidebound
- insular
- nonconforming
- rigid
- schismatic
- skeptical
- small-town
antonyms for factional
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How to use factional in a sentence
Aware that factional faultlines may emerge after his death—perhaps causing the clerical regime to suffer the same fate as the Soviet Union—Khamenei is doing all he can to ensure his Islamist ideology outlives him.
WHY IRAN’S ELECTIONS ARE A CRITICAL TURNING POINT FOR KHAMENEI’S REGIMEKASRA AARABIJUNE 16, 2021TIMEThe strength of the new party was frittered away in doctrinaire factional strife between the single taxers and the socialists.
A HISTORY OF TRADE UNIONISM IN THE UNITED STATESSELIG PERLMANThis factional struggle greatly complicates every revolutionary movement.
THE BEHAVIOR OF CROWDSEVERETT DEAN MARTINThe struggle for place is continued as a factional fight within the newly ruling crowd.
THE BEHAVIOR OF CROWDSEVERETT DEAN MARTINWe were too near the fight still, and there were party wounds to be bound up and little factional sores that had to be healed.
THE STRENGTH OF GIDEON AND OTHER STORIESPAUL LAURENCE DUNBARIt is very painful to me that you in Missouri cannot or will not settle your factional quarrel among yourselves.
THE PAPERS AND WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VOLUME SIXABRAHAM LINCOLNBut he had the advantage of escaping the bitter factional feeling within the party against each of these leaders.
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN HISTORY, 1877-1913CHARLES A. BEARDIn the lower form there are personal jealousies and factional contests which prevent united action under elected leaders.
RACES AND IMMIGRANTS IN AMERICAJOHN R. COMMONSBut as the years passed factional division grew more and more pronounced.
KENTUCKY'S FAMOUS FEUDS AND TRAGEDIESCHAS. G MUTZENBERGMore harmful than these quarrels were the factional disputes between the civil and military officials.
THE COLONIZATION OF NORTH AMERICAHERBERT EUGENE BOLTONWORDS RELATED TO FACTIONAL
- aberrant
- abnormal
- anomalous
- antithetical
- atypical
- conflicting
- contradictory
- contrary
- deviating
- different
- disagreeing
- disparate
- dissimilar
- dissonant
- distant
- diverging
- diverse
- factional
- factious
- irregular
- off-key
- opposite
- poles apart
- separate
- unalike
- unequal
- unlike
- unnatural
- unsimilar
- untypical
- variant
- various
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