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

Allegations of a secret prohibitionist government agenda were fuelled last year when former state premier Mick Baird posted an impassioned defence of the lockouts on Facebook.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2017

Miss Way was always an abolitionist, a prohibitionist, and an uncompromising suffragist—the great pioneer of all reforms.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady