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Synonyms for reactionary

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Synonyms for reactionary

vehemently, often fanatically opposing progress or reform

clinging to obsolete ideas

a person who vehemently, often fanatically opposes progress and favors return to a previous condition

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Synonyms for reactionary

extremely conservative

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Yesterday, she added that the Vatican had teamed up with "some of the most reactionary countries in the world" including Sudan, to undo the Cairo agreement.
Just as significantly, the conservative coalition was newer, and its reactionary core was more willing to see its pet issues go unattended.
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(Most of the time the NBI would come into the picture in a reactionary move.
But this came at the cost of a reactionary dictatorship.
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The Department for Exiting the European Union (DEXEU) said confirming or denying its existence could "impact the national and regional economies by precipitating preemptive and reactionary assumptions from stakeholders in the respective regions".
"All documents show that the ISIL and other terrorist groups have been nurtured by the US and the reactionary regional regimes," he added.
Although its fatwa was not binding, the position taken by the Council roused the emotions of progressive, conservative, and reactionary Muslims in Indonesia and heavily influenced the debates between them for over a decade.
The global arrogance, aided by some reactionary regimes, is openly and covertly supporting the terrorist groups, Khaji said.
"The terrorists fighting in Syria today are forces of Saudi Arabia or the Americans or even reactionary forces in the region", Jazayeri said.
All this suggests that members of society are much more open-minded and advanced in their thinking than our reactionary politicians, journalists and secondary school teachers that have lashed out against any past attempts to change school history books, claiming this would destroy our Greek identity.