Definition of arch-conservative in English:
arch-conservative
adjectiveɑːtʃkənˈsəːvətɪv
Extremely averse to change and strongly adhering to traditional values.
his social philosophy is arch-conservative
Example sentencesExamples
- The arch-conservative American ambassador to the UN sounded the alarm last week.
- The advantage of having an archconservative American president, according to a certain line of thinking, is that he plants the seeds of revolt.
- He's sure to stack the Supreme Court with arch-conservative judges.
- The arch-conservative theologian does not reflect the country's self-image as secular, liberal and progressive.
- Her archconservative, often libertarian, and sometimes extreme views made her popular with militia movements.
- Some of the president's most ardent arch-conservative supporters are fired up for battle.
- To the liberal, civic-minded elite, he was widely seen as a showman, a closet politician whose arch-conservative views were at odds with the values of a secular democracy.
- More than a history, it is a checklist of arch-conservative talking points.
- In 1996 he backed an arch-conservative Texas senator for the Republican presidential nomination.
- The arch-conservative editor of Commentary magazine recalled that in 1957 Roth complained to a mutual friend that he "disapproved of how foul-mouthed I was".
- He was known for his arch-conservative views.
- For over a year, the president's chief strategist has been targeting this arch-conservative group.
- They fund diverse cultural fare in otherwise archconservative Utah.
- Such judgmental questions sound like that arch-conservative self-righteous man who every young woman in the vicinity knows is a groping ogler.
- Agents of change don't usually rise to the top in the arch-conservative world of Japanese business.
- He made his last political speech in support of the arch-conservative John Claudius Beresford in 1802.
- The pamphlet continues to circulate among archconservative and white supremacist groups worldwide.
- The funny thing, of course, is that both arch-conservative dissenters and arch-liberal dissenters from the Catholic Church talk this way.
- While his archconservative views on some social issues drove more people away from his church, he never allowed his ideas to fuel malice or hatred.
- It is a country in which both rulers and ruled are equally arch-conservative.
nounɑːtʃkənˈsəːvətɪv
A person who is extremely averse to change and strongly adheres to traditional values.
her father was an arch-conservative in the colonial era tradition
Example sentencesExamples
- In this article, you incorrectly mislabeled Milton Friedman as an "arch-conservative" when Friedman is actually a libertarian.
- His supporters say it is misguided to describe him as an archconservative in thrall to big business.
- The arch-conservative died of medical causes at a medical center in Raleigh.
- It makes it that much easier to portray someone like him as a right-of-center moderate instead of the arch-conservative he truly is.
- His father was born into a rigid religious sect and was an archconservative - the empire, the colonial system and all that.
- He has sometimes been pigeonholed as an arch-conservative.
- The first universal health insurance system was forged and passed in 1883 by an archconservative, Germany's Otto von Bismarck.
- They justified their alliance with the arch-conservative by explaining that it was a call for political reform, not an endorsement of his platform.
- He said he took the advice to heart, and jokingly called himself an "arch-conservative."
- Born in 1881, he remained an arch-conservative, paying homage to his Soviet masters in the stirring march themes of the extrovert finale.
- The first few weeks of primaries, when he visited Bob Jones University and defined himself as an arch-conservative, harmed his general election standing.
- The single greatest critic of the British Empire, Edmund Burke, was an archconservative who saw imperialism as an essentially radical project.
- Her ex-best friend is now an arch-conservative with two children and a husband who knows nothing of her past.
- They're scared to death of this guy because they really believe he is the archconservative that they've always feared would step forward.
- He is regarded by many as an arch-conservative and enemy of postwar democratic reforms.
- Theologically he was an arch-conservative and his refusal to condone condom usage has been a huge impediment in the fight against AIDS.
- He was an archconservative who saw the world in terms of good and evil.
- The Reform Party national committee will vote on whether to oust the pugilistic arch-conservative who is seeking that party's candidacy.
- It's exactly the interpretation you would expect from an arch-conservative secure in his ideology.
- He is an arch-conservative who will stop at nothing to win political victory.