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 • Mar. 26, 2026

"The Grammys are more reactionary than anything else," said Kehrer.

From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026

"It's incompetence, it's reactionary," says Marcus Carter, professor of human-computer interaction at the University of Sydney.

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025

It also reflected—in the lack of any real sense of scandal to follow—where we are, as a society, in this reactionary era.

From Slate • Dec. 10, 2025

I never met anybody so dedicated to fighting reactionary ideas and prejudice as this folk- singer.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole