How to use "reactionary" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "reactionary" in popular movie and book plots

  • Their unwittingly reactionary occupation in troubled times adds up to catastrophic consequences.  - Memoirs of the Actor in a Supporting Role
  • On the radio, a broadcast in Russian informs the people of an anti-constitution coup d'état instigated by right-wing reactionary forces.  - Forward, Comrades
  • A shadowy neofeudalist group (the "Castle movement") led by a reactionary billionaire may be inadvertent saviors of society.  - Directive 51 (novel)
  • Fabius is murdered during the night by reactionary politicians opposed to Christianity, and the Christians are blamed for the murder.  - Fabiola (1949 film)
  • ] finally paying the price for hundreds of years of imperialism, reactionary politics, wasteful spending and industrialisation".  - Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey
  • Rheinhardt is content to parrot WUSA's reactionary editorial stance on the air, even if he does not agree with it.  - WUSA (film)
  • Chunsheng, still in the government, has been branded a reactionary and a capitalist.  - To Live (1994 film)
  • Chapter 9 portrays Shigeyuki Iinuma, a reactionary 23-year-old from Kagoshima, who has been Kiyoaki's tutor for the last six years.  - Spring Snow
  • However many liberals, including Budur and Kirana start mass street protests against this reactionary dictatorship.  - The Years of Rice and Salt

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