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conservative

adjective as in tending to preserve the status quo

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Plus the GOP electorate has become more conservative since 2008.

That Huckabee is mentioned in the same sentence with other aspiring conservative governors, especially Bobby Jindal, is laughable.

A hundred ultra-wealthy liberal and conservative donors have taken over the political system.

A colleague overheard two conservative Mass. lawmakers talking about what “the gays” could do.

The disbelief was evident in article after article, with one conservative site using “President Pinocchio” in its headline.

The conservative senate sent a deputation to Bonaparte, expressing their desire that he would accept the title of emperor.

The man called Shiv was driving Delancy's get-away car at a conservative pace so as not to excite suspicion.

Who was it but its founder, that led the Conservative party through these successive stages of triumph?

It was one of the conservative sheets, comic-less, reactionary Republican to the core.

In politics he took the Conservative side, but as regards music he was probably the most advanced radical in Moscow.

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On this page you'll find 126 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to conservative, such as: traditional, cautious, constant, conventional, firm, and moderate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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