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Reformist   /rɪfˈɔrmɪst/   Listen
Reformist

adjective
1.
Favoring or promoting reform (often by government action).  Synonyms: progressive, reform-minded.






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"Reformist" Quotes from Famous Books



... some reform. At first it was a hard confession to make, but the more I saw of politics at first-hand, the more I respected the indifference of the public. There was something monotonously trivial and irrelevant about our reformist enthusiasm, and an appalling justice in that half-conscious criticism which refuses to place politics among the genuine, creative activities of men. Science was valid, art was valid, the poorest grubber in a laboratory was engaged in a real labor, anyone who had found ...
— A Preface to Politics • Walter Lippmann



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