reactionary

Example Sentences

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Investors are waking up to the harsh realities and the financial penalties of a reordered, reactionary world.

From The Wall Street Journal

"If believing in God is reactionary, then we are also reactionary," he told his party's meeting in parliament on Tuesday.

From Barron's

This means the stock and options markets should be stuck in a volatile reactionary state for a prolonged period.

From Barron's

It won best film, best director for Anderson and best supporting actor for Sean Penn, who played reactionary villain Colonel Steven Lockjaw in the movie but wasn't in attendance.

From BBC

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