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US
/ˌkaʊntɝɹɛvəˈɫuʃəˌnɛɹi/
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ADJECTIVE
- relating to or being a counterrevolution
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marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution
ostracized for his counterrevolutionary tendencies
NOUN
- a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution
How To Use counterrevolutionary In A Sentence
- In addition to incitements and urgings from these right-wing political and mainstream media morons, there also came - and still are coming - the claims from the weirdest and dankest holes in the blogosphere, the deep rat warrens where readers of Newsmax, NewsBusters and other collections of neo-Nazi rants, can come together to rub vigorously each other's, um, reptilian fears and stroke each other's faux bravery as they plot their "counterrevolutionary" tactics and strategies. Mike Malloy: Poison
- Distinctions can be made between reformist, unificatory, and secessionist types, between revolutionary and counterrevolutionary forms, between successive liberal and conservative variants, and between European and colonial manifestations of nationalism.
- This is a counterrevolutionary organization, with a long history of gangsterism and thuggery against any and all left-wing political opponents.
- We always call counterrevolutionary criminals by the name of counterrevolutionary criminals. 4TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE INTERIOR MINISTRY
- Mr. BERNSTEIN: Well, the government acknowledges 3,000 political prisoners; that is people in jail for what they loosely call counterrevolutionary crimes. The Coming Conflict with China
- In the fall of 1793, he and Barras led the violent repression of the counterrevolutionary movement in Toulon, where he ordered mass executions of suspected insurgents. Names
- At the same time American capitalism carried out its own ambitious counterrevolutionary intrigue, through the newly formed CIA as well as other agencies.
- Zhang is one of very few military men who've called for a reassessment of the protest movement, which authorities still sometimes call a "counterrevolutionary" riot. When We Talk About Tiananmen
- If there's a war -- and some blogs troublingly trash professional standards as quaint and archaic, like communists denouncing anything "counterrevolutionary" -- the blogheads may have won, at least for now. In the 500-channel universe, we're definitely lost in space
- ostracized for his counterrevolutionary tendencies