Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Opposed or resistant to change; stubbornly conservative.
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- adjective old-fashioned and out of date
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Examples
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"When a standpat Republican politician abandons a lifetime of party regularity at 70 to come out in hearty praise of a Democratic President," the paper noted, "it is time for connoisseurs of the unusual to stand by and take notes."
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"When a standpat Republican politician abandons a lifetime of party regularity at 70 to come out in hearty praise of a Democratic President," the paper noted, "it is time for connoisseurs of the unusual to stand by and take notes."
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"When a standpat Republican politician abandons a lifetime of party regularity at 70 to come out in hearty praise of a Democratic President," the paper noted, "it is time for connoisseurs of the unusual to stand by and take notes."
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His half-cocked smile and his standpat spurs really jingle my jangle.
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His half-cocked smile and his standpat spurs really jingle my jangle.
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By contrast, Bush's pitch is standpat: rely on business to create jobs; resist higher government spending.
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Indeed, a “constitution” gave preferred membership status to those “who have accepted standpat dogmas.”
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Indeed, a “constitution” gave preferred membership status to those “who have accepted standpat dogmas.”
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Clark, and Harmon, just how they felt about the efforts of the New York delegation, led by the Tammany boss, Charlie Murphy, and the conservative element of the Democratic party in the East, to control the Convention and to give it the most conservative and standpat appearance by controlling the preliminary organization and nominating Alton B. Parker as temporary chairman.
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Woodrow Wilson, college professor, man of mystery, political recluse, the nominee of the most standpat Democratic convention of many years, had been chosen the leader of the people of the state by the unprecedented majority of 39,000, and was wearing the laurels of victory.
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