prohibitionist

Example Sentences

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And I'm not talking about just the decades of prohibitionist propaganda, either.

From Salon • Jul. 2, 2023

The Senators owner, a prohibitionist through and through, made things harder on himself by subsisting without a source of revenue that other teams availed themselves of.

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2023

Most of the shops are to be operated by people of color who had been incarcerated by prohibitionist laws.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2023

The disease notion, however, obscures those facts and narrows our view to counterproductive criminal responses, like harsh prohibitionist crackdowns.

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2022

Why, Will, he'll use you in the capitals of Europe to advertise his liberalism; just as the prohibitionist exhibits a reformed drunkard.

From The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays by Leonard, Sterling Andrus