1. reactionary - Noun
2. reactionary - Adjective
3. reactionary - Adjective Satellite
Being, causing, or favoring reaction; as, reactionary movements.
One who favors reaction, or seeks to undo political progress or revolution.
Source: Webster's dictionaryEveryone is a reactionary about subjects he understands. Robert Conquest
We do not have the right to forget that reactionary imperialism exists and its forces actively operate in the world, that they encourage the arms race and that they try to restore the spirit of the Cold War. Andrei Grechko
The significance of feminist movement (when it is not co-opted by opportunistic, reactionary forces) is that it offers a new ideological meeting ground for the sexes, a space for criticism, struggle, and transformation. Bell hooks
Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, "taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power." History taught the same to many conservative and reactionary populist movements, whose real attitude to those in power and authority was one of a servile, envious, vicarious adoration. Christopher Hitchens
A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and hands at the behest of his head. Franklin D. Roosevelt
A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. Franklin D. Roosevelt