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unreconstructed
[ uhn-ree-kuhn-struhk-tid ]
adjective
- stubbornly maintaining earlier positions, beliefs, etc.; not adjusted to new or current situations:
an unreconstructed conservative.
- U.S. History. (of Southern states) not accepting the conditions for reinstatement in the Union after the Civil War.
unreconstructed
/ ˌʌnriːkənsˈtrʌktɪd /
adjective
- unwilling to accept social and economic change, as exemplified by those White Southerners who refused to accept the Reconstruction after the Civil War
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Example Sentences
In other words, the sell-out centrists have a higher number than the unreconstructed lefties!
If clean-shaven William is a new man, then his bearded brother Harry is 100% unreconstructed bloke.
Some nurse an unreconstructed Confederate grudge, while others harbor a thinly disguised racism.
Surely, an unreconstructed snob could misconstrue much more.
And make no mistake: this was the hard, unreconstructed neoconservative right.
Perhaps she thought of Hugo then; of perhaps the small unreconstructed corner of her mind grew more unrestful.
It is reproachfully said by alien writers that the Southern women are more unreconstructed rebels than the men.
Caleb Gordon had accepted defeat openly and honestly, and for this the unreconstructed Major had never fully forgiven him.
Miss Ella and Louise were entirely unreconstructed as far as the colored people were concerned.
The unreconstructed Boers refused to fight for the Power that humbled them in 1902.
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