REACTIONARY in a Sentence

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1. The reactionary officer then ordered him arrested.
2. The reactionary police made a baton charge on the demonstrating crowd.
3. The reactionary government tried vainly to take the steam out of the protest movement.
4. It grew ever more clear to everyone that the Minister was too reactionary, too blinkered.
5. Opposing the use of English in worship services, reactionary forces in the church fought to reinstate the mass in Latin.

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 Meanings and Examples of REACTIONARY
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reactionary
 a.  opposition to progress or liberalism; extremely conservative
Classic Sentence:
1  The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color-line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
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Example Sentence:
1  The reactionary police made a baton charge on the demonstrating crowd.
2  It grew ever more clear to everyone that the Minister was too reactionary, too blinkered.
3  The reactionary government tried vainly to take the steam out of the protest movement.
4  The reactionary officer then ordered him arrested.
5  Opposing the use of English in worship services, reactionary forces in the church fought to reinstate the mass in Latin.