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Word:
conservative
IPA transcription: [kəns'ɝvətɪv]
Pronunciations of conservative
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adverb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
conservative
Meaning:
resistant to change
Synonyms:
conservative
Meaning:
having social or political views favoring conservatism
Synonyms:
cautious, conservative
Meaning:
avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate"
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
conservative, conservativist
Meaning:
a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
Usage examples
He turned suddenly to his companion, the Conservative agent.
"They want stirring up a bit," said the Conservative agent despondently.
The time to temporize, theorize, be conservative and easy-going has gone by.
Selwyn now devoted himself to the making of enough conservative senators to control comfortably that body.
"If it does," said Paul, "it will be associated with the immediate retirement of the Conservative candidate."
I know another man, a conservative capitalist of narrow and aggressive temper, whose wife turned into an ardent Bolshevik.
The conservative suffrage leaders, although they heartily disapproved of , picketing, were as outspoken in their gratitude.
They asked numerous questions as they helped her to unpack and settle her room, but accepted her conservative answers without comment.
But man is a desperately conservative creature, and the extravagant novelty of this outrage upon his purse distressed his sensibilities.
There had been a medical lobby long before, but it had been a conservative group, mostly concerned with protecting medical autonomy and ethics.
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Munich
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Altrincham
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George Lansbury
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Mission Praise
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George H. W. Bush
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Ayn Rand
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Social anxiety
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Canada
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Harvey Milk
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