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nonconservative

  • a word derived from conservative.
    conservative
    adjective
    disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.

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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