republican

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When a republican is angry at a newspaper then the paper is instantly "liberal".

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of a republic.
  2. adjective Favoring a republic as the best form of government.
  3. adjective Of, relating to, characteristic of, or belonging to the Republican Party of the United States.
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  • The same persons who found fault with Washington's levees would probably have regarded the practice introduced by Washington as anti-republican, as it is practiced by the sovereigns of Great Britain. —  Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2
  • I know a person who actually met Hilary Clinton and although I'm a huge republican, that is still pretty cool. —  All articles at Blogcritics
  • By forcing judges to run a partisan campaign by running as either a democrat or a republican, the public sometimes votes for the party instead of the person. —  Newspaper Tree
  • The president submits a budget, and hisorically we have gone through recessions while a republican has been the president. —  KSL / U.S. / National
  • For a Black to be a republican is almost akin to a gay person coming out of the closest (hyperbole alert!!), especially in a year like this. —  WordPress.com News
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  1. =F. républicain =Spanish Portuguese republicano =Italian repubblicano (cf. Dutch republiekeinsch =G. republikanisch =Danish Swedish republikansk, adjective; Dutch republiekein =G. Danish Swedish republikaner, n.), from New Latin republicanus, from Latin res publica, republic: see republic.
 

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