Crossword-Solution: CONSERVATIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Conservative | a. | Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative. |
| Conservative | a. | Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation. |
| Conservative | a. | Of or pertaining to a political party which favors the conservation of existing institutions and forms of government, as the Conservative party in England; -- contradistinguished from Liberal and Radical. |
| Conservative | n. | One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver. |
| Conservative | n. | One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical. |
| Conservative | n. | A member of the Conservative party. |
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Sentences with CONSERVATIVE (5)
General Miller was radically conservative; a man over whose kindly nature habit had no slight influence; attaching himself strongly to familiar faces, and with difficulty moved to change, even when change might have brought unquestionable improvement.
Thor was conservative in all things, and the whole family had anguished with him when he was being weaned.
The AM staff is conservative and clings to cataloguing, though of course visitors tout artificial intelligence and neural networks in a manner that suggests that perhaps one need not have cataloguing or that much of it could be put aside.
CONSERVATIVE, OR BOURGEOIS, SOCIALISM A part of the bourgeoisie is desirous of redressing social grievances, in order to secure the continued existence of bourgeois society.
Although it did not receive the backing of the N.A.A.C.P., the Urban League, an even more conservative organization, became a cornerstone in the Congress.
Quotes with CONSERVATIVE (3)
When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.
Dogmatic theology is, by its very nature, unchangeable. The same can be said in regard to the spirit of the law. Law was and is to protect the past and present status of society and, by its very essence, must be very conservative, if not reactionary. Theology and law are both of them static by their nature. Philosophy, law and ethics, to be effective in a dynamic world must be dynamic; they must be made vital enough to keep pace with the progress of life and science. In recen…
That war [Bosnian war] in the early 1990s changed a lot for me. I never thought I would see, in Europe, a full-dress reprise of internment camps, the mass murder of civilians, the reinstiutution of torture and rape as acts of policy. And I didn't expect so many of my comrades to be indifferent - or even take the side of the fascists. It was a time when many people on the left were saying 'Don't intervene, we'll only make things worse' or, 'Don't intervene, it might destabilis…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1951–1968).