adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Scalia is perhaps the most doctrinaire of the court's conservative judges.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He didn't get on at graduate school at Harvard, finding it pretentious and doctrinaire .
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Hers was a brave demonstration against those whose doctrinaire divisions have caused so much confrontation, pain and death through the ages.
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In any case they did not inherit the doctrinaire restrictions of their elders.
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The schedule seemed doctrinaire on paper, as Communist theories do, but its key in practice was flexibility.
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There is nothing doctrinaire about our approach to the matter.
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We do not want to be dictated to by born-again Protestants or doctrinaire Catholics.
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What actually happened was that a less doctrinaire magistracy put local taxes up in order to provide bread for poor families.