Modifies a noun

• bigot: Certainly Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, is a reactionary bigot who denies the reality of the Nazi Holocaust.

• Utopia: The possibility of a gradual improvement in the condition Of the working class is a reactionary Utopia.

• bourgeoisie: The fate of humankind cannot be left to the reactionary bourgeoisie of any shade, their political parties or representatives.

• modernism: Instead, they want to update reactionary modernism for the age of the Net.

• nationalism: Suddenly, it is as if those symbols of reactionary nationalism have had all their teeth pulled.

• ideology: In their nationalism they encompass virtually all reactionary ideology.

Modifying Another Word

• profoundly: Yet putting the question in this empty fashion is a profoundly reactionary procedure.

• deeply: The rise of Fascism led to an identification of folk studies with deeply reactionary or racist ideology.

• utterly: The notion that the utterly reactionary counter-revolutionary Stalinist dictatorship of the USSR was likely to invade western Europe was, of course, absurd.

• thoroughly: Rather they represented a thoroughly reactionary force which wanted to turn society backward.

• equally: European imperialism is as equally reactionary as the US.

• extremely: Ultimately, I think Unionism is an extremely reactionary set of political ideas; I think that about Republicanism in some ways too.

Used with adjective complement

• turn: Edmund Burke is the standard example of the liberal turned reactionary.

• become: Such a position is amorphous; it is conservative and it threatens to become reactionary.

• seem: Critical EAP is appealing pedagogically because of its restive questioning of discourse norms, although it can seem reactionary at times.

Preposition: in

• tone: Most of them tend to be reactionary in tone and contribute little to the discussion of inerrancy.