conservative

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In those days a conservative could be an environmentalist without being denounced as a traitor to a movement fast becoming an obscurantist cult.

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  1. adjective Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change.
  2. adjective Traditional or restrained in style: a conservative dark suit.
  3. adjective Moderate; cautious: a conservative estimate.
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  • Republicans on the ground think the conservative is the one who suffered 5½ years in the Hanoi Hilton. —  comMITTed to Romney!
  • Republicans on the ground think the conservative is the one who has endured a lifetime in the rounds in Washington and survived as antispending, antiabortion and pro-military. —  comMITTed to Romney!
  • Republicans on the ground think the conservative is the old fighter jock who'll keep the country safe in a rocky time ahead. —  comMITTed to Romney!
  • Wasn't it Mike Royko who said a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged? —  NASA Watch
  • After all, a conservative is a liberal with a mortgage, and a liberal is a conservative under indictment. —  Simple Justice
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  1. = French conservatif (later conservatief = German conservativ = Danish konservativ) = Spanish Portuguese Italian conservativo, from Middle Latin conservativus, from Latin conservatus, past participle of conservare, keep, preserve: see conserve, v.
 

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