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UK
/dˌɒktɹɪnˈeə/
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[ US /ˌdɑktɹəˈnɛɹ/ ]
[ US /ˌdɑktɹəˈnɛɹ/ ]
NOUN
- a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions
ADJECTIVE
- stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability
How To Use doctrinaire In A Sentence
- He had been a Marxist since his early 20s, but his was by no means a rigid, doctrinaire approach.
- They are not concerned with complicated doctrinaire considerations, but with a sure instinct are demanding fundamental solutions.
- But while the critics and doctrinaires were contending thus variously about the merits of Schiller, his name endeared itself more and more to the many who were chafing under the régime of princely absolutism and were longing for a freer Germany. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
- It proves exactly what every non-doctrinaire informed commentator has told politicians: throwing money at unreformed public services solves little.
- There are times when such enclaves are small-minded, doctrinaire, judgmental, and prejudiced to the extreme.
- It seems when push comes to shove, the doctrinaire retreat.
- But I think it saddened him to see people obdurate, unwilling to let go of doctrinaire positions instead of facing issues on their merits.
- Hers was a brave demonstration against those whose doctrinaire divisions have caused so much confrontation, pain and death through the ages.
- I think it saddened him to see people obdurate, unwilling to let go of doctrinaire positions instead of facing issues on their merits.
- The party followed an increasingly doctrinaire course.