reactionary

Example Sentences

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After all, what could enrage reactionaries more than a confident, gender-bending, anti-colonial Puerto Rican performing in Spanish on the country’s most mythologized stage?

From Salon

Arguing the change was reactionary to Beyoncé's win is easy but conversations had been happening for years, Jason King, the dean of the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music, told the BBC.

From BBC

The democratic London dandy’s Parisian cousin was a reactionary.

From The Wall Street Journal

These businesses were picked almost certainly because Shirley and his colleagues have tapped into the long-standing tendency of paranoid reactionaries to make day cares the subject of conspiracy theories.

From Salon

Reflecting on how the works came together over 14 years, he said it was "very reactionary" and speaks of "instability in the world".

From BBC