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Staunchly Conservative
Answer for the clue "Staunchly Conservative ", 9 letters:
true-blue
Alternative clues for the word true-blue
Word definitions for true-blue in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (alternative spelling of true blue English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
True-blue \True"-blue`\, n. A person of inflexible integrity or fidelity.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ However, his opponents are convinced that even in true-blue East Hampshire Tory popularity is on the wane. ▪ The predicted backlash from true-blue supporters has never materialised.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. marked by unswerving loyalty; "a true-blue American"; "a reliable true-blue country club conservative"
Usage examples of true-blue.
Not like America, where spavined Alabaman must mingle with Virginian nabob, where tormented Lithuanian must extend his hand to the seven-foot Cape Codder with those true-blue eyes.
There was even a hacker group called "Justice League of America," named after Superman's club of true-blue crimefighting superheros.
There was even a hacker group called "Justice League of America," named after Superman's club of true-blue crimefighting superheros.
Take General Binks or Colonel Snooks, true-blue military muttonheads, brave as bedamned, athirst for glory, doing their dutiful asinine bit in half a dozen campaigns, but never truly catching the public eye, and at last selling out and retiring from obscurity to Cheltenham with a couple of wounds and barely enough to pay the club subscription, foot the memsahib's whist bill, send Adolphus to a crammer 'cos the Wellington fees are beyond them, and afford a drunken loafer to neglect the garden of Ramilles or Quatre Bras or whatever they choose to call their infernal villas.
I doubt it, myself - but what happened in the North Valley, under those Russian guns, all for nothing, that's bravery, and you may take the word of a true-blue coward for it.