nonconservative
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a word derived from
conservative.
conservativeadjectivedisposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
Example Sentences
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On Friday's episode of "Real Time With Bill Maher," a segment in which Maher talks about Madison Cawthorn contrasts the nonconservative actions of the congressman against his public-facing conservative Christian messaging.
From Salon ● May 7, 2022
“You have people who are socially conservative and fiscally nonconservative and vice versa,” Trump told me.
From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2016
A nonconservative force is one for which work depends on the path taken.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
Feel free to substitute the nonconservative icon of your choosing as you read that sentence.
From Forbes ● Sep. 19, 2013
That system was rattled in 1993, when Ozawa, an LDP renegade, engineered the election of Japan's first nonconservative Prime Minister post-1948.
From Time Magazine Archive
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