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
A sprawling history of a concept, spanning decades of prohibitionist thinking and the latest in recovery research, could easily fall apart were it not informed by Fisher's experience.
From Salon • Mar. 9, 2022
His mother, a saintly and noble prohibitionist worker, whom I afterwards met in America, had heard of me, and wrote asking me to keep a watchful eye on her boy.
From An Autobiography by Spence, Catherine Helen
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.