revisionist
/rɪˈvɪʒ(ə)nɪst
/noun
1A supporter of a policy of revision or modification: the revisionists who sought to replace it were long denied...
- It has nothing whatsoever to do with celebrating the mastering of anyone else, contrary to popular revisionists' belief.
- We'll plan on fighting the revisionists all the way.
- The working-class resistance which revisionists admiringly celebrated was nonetheless doomed to romantic failure.
1.1A person with a revised attitude to a previously accepted situation or point of view: revisionists have argued that the battle was crucial...
- We are a nation of historical revisionists.
- With revisionists everywhere, in a world of short memories, someone needs to be out there beating the drum.
- How do you frame the story historically without becoming a revisionist?
adjective
1Advocating a policy of revision or modification: a radically revisionist republican strategy...
- It's the most infuriating part of the novel, which indeed rises to the level of revisionist propaganda.
- He manages to avoid the revisionist, anti-establishment, overwhelmingly negative posturing.
- It preferred a revisionist policy that would appeal to a larger section of the population.
1.1Promoting a revised attitude to a previously accepted situation or point of view: he is unimpressed by the arguments of revisionist historians a revisionist view of the media’s role in politics...
- It's a sparkling presentation of the film-maker's latest attempt at revisionist history.
- It is rightly revisionist in its interpretation of things like the supposedly expressed construction of the Turbine Hall.
- It's a little bit revisionist for some people in terms of the whitewashing of this historical character.