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doctrinaire

/dok-truh-nair/US // ˈdɒk trəˈnɛər //UK // (ˌdɒktrɪˈnɛə) //

教条主义,教条主义者,迂腐,迂腐的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who tries to apply some doctrine or theory without sufficient regard for practical considerations; an impractical theorist.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : dogmatic about others' acceptance of one's ideas; fanatical: a doctrinaire preacher.
    • : merely theoretical; impractical.
    • : of, relating to, or characteristic of a doctrinaire.

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Examples

  • But he also prides himself on not being doctrinaire in his beliefs.

  • Bachmann is so doctrinaire she seems unlikely to be a serious contender in the general election.

  • In this selective narrative, the only path to truth is doctrinaire conservatism.

  • This was a watershed between doctrinaire aggression and physical aggression.

  • Governance has even led him to moderate some of his more doctrinaire conservative views, he said.

  • To these, as a "forward" party, the doctrinaire theorists have allied themselves.

  • If his mind did not naturally work that way he would not be a Doctrinaire.

  • The Doctrinaire can never realize the fatal nature of the "too-much."

  • None the less, all attempts to win the working men from the doctrinaire Socialists failed.

  • The strength of the new party was frittered away in doctrinaire factional strife between the single taxers and the socialists.