prohibitionist
Example Sentences
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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
Mr. Sweanor emphasized that he’s not a prohibitionist.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 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
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 Sterling Andrus Leonard