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unrevolutionary

  • a word derived from revolutionary.
    revolutionary
    adjective
    of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change.

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Humanizing “bad” people is decidedly unrevolutionary in 2024; it takes more nerve to create characters the audience might not like and dare us to care about them anyway.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2024

Congress, but last week there were notable, if unrevolutionary, reforms in each chamber: TV in the House.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cowper, we have said, always remained in principle what he had been born, a Whig, an unrevolutionary Whig, an "Old Whig" to adopt the phrase made canonical by Burke.

From Cowper by Goldwin Smith

Of all the social door mats that ever I wiped my feet upon Old Dob is certainly the cleanest, most patient, serviceable and unrevolutionary.

From The Delicious Vice by Young Ewing Allison