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doctrinaire::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | dogmatist |
| Type of | drumbeater, partisan, zealot |
doctrinaire::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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Examples of doctrinaire
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His pragmatism has finally won out against his brother's doctrinaire Utopianism.
From the economist.com
The Muslim Brotherhood has been less doctrinaire but is a long way from liberal.
From the sacbee.com
Grozni finds that other expats are an antidote to the more doctrinaire Buddhists.
From the nytimes.com
The Tories are on a reckless, doctrinaire mission to marketise public services.
From the guardian.co.uk
She preaches a doctrinaire form of Republicanism that appeals to party activists.
From the economist.com
Intellectually, Lauristin had long ago left doctrinaire communist ideas behind.
From the time.com
Current articles stress solid reporting and are deliberately less doctrinaire.
From the time.com
Moreover, Hayek was not doctrinaire about the importance of political freedom.
From the economix.blogs.nytimes.com
Redzepi the chef may be doctrinaire but Redzepi the teacher is very laid back.
From the nzherald.co.nz
- Stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability
- Dogmatist: a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions
- Doctrinaires was the name given during the Bourbon Restoration (1814-1830) to the little group of French Royalists who hoped to reconcile the Monarchy with the Revolution, and power with liberty. ...
- A person who stubbornly holds to his or her philosophy or opinion regardless of its feasibility; stubbornly holding on to an idea without concern for practicalities or reality
- (adj) merely theoretical, without regard to practical considerations; dogmatic or authoritarian
