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- reactionary guardians of proper English usage invariably regard every new coinage that comes along as a nonword
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- reactionaries tried to stop the passage of the legislation extending civil rights
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- a reactionary in the nation's ongoing culture war, she seems to believe that watching any TV at all will rot your brain
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- antediluvian,
- Colonel Blimp,
- dodo,
- fogy
- (also fogey),
- fossil,
- fud,
- fuddy-duddy,
- mossback,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- stuffed shirt
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“Reactionary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reactionary. Accessed 21 Sep. 2021.
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