pseudoconservative
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- noun
- /ˌsuːdoʊkənˈsɜːrvətɪv/
- Literature
- Danby, the pseudoconservatives I've heard denouncing public libraries are out of the "all public services should be privatized" school of free-market Jacobins, but I'm sure the partisan issue also comes in.
Examples
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I've attempted to explain some of your ideas to modern conservatives (not real conservatives, I mean the pseudoconservatives you were talking about in your previous post), but they cite Horatio Alger and tell me that anyone can get rich (really rich) if they really wanted to.
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Many claim to be conservatives, but in reality, they are just pseudoconservatives who do not uphold traditional values.
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Do you "social" pseudoconservatives have any hope of ever getting a handle on that concept?
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The policy proposals from some politicians reveal them to be merely pseudoconservatives, lacking true commitment to conservative ideals.
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Critics often label certain authors as pseudoconservatives for promoting ideas that contradict established conservative beliefs.
Antonyms
How Conservative
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Surface Forms
Morphology
pseudoconservative = pseudoconservative (semi-transparent) = pseudo + conserve + ative
The noun sense is a regular conversion of the adjective form without spelling change.
Etymology
Pseudoconservative is made of pseudo- 'false' and conservative 'wanting to keep things as they are'. So a pseudoconservative is a person or policy that calls itself conservative but is really only pretending.