reactionary

Converse of object

prevent: This, however, does not prevent the reactionaries and irresponsible demagogues from indulging in false patriotic manifestations and provocations.

Adjective modifier

• social: We are not a bunch of ideological obsessions or social reactionaries denouncing our own society from outside it.
• religious: King Amanullah's sweeping, fast-paced reforms cost him his job to religious reactionaries in 1928.

Modifies a noun

• 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.

Preposition: of

bourgeoisie: No doubt, the clever reactionaries of the French bourgeoisie have blurted out the real truth.