tory

/tawr-ee, tohr-ee/US // ˈtɔr i, ˈtoʊr i //UK // (ˈtɔːrɪ) //

托里,托利,托儿所,保守派

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
plural To·ries, for 1-5.
- : a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- : a member of a political party in Great Britain from the late 17th century to about 1832 that favored royal authority over Parliament and the preservation of the existing social and political order: succeeded by the Conservative party.
- : an advocate of conservative principles; one opposed to reform or radicalism.
- : a person who supported the British cause in the American Revolution; a loyalist.
- : a dispossessed Irishman who resorted to banditry, especially after the invasion of Oliver Cromwell and suppression of the royalist cause.
- : a male or female given name.

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : of, belonging to, or characteristic of the Tories.
- : being a Tory.
- : opposed to reform or radicalism; conservative.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inreactionary

Synonyms

counterrevolutionary反革命,反革命分子,反革命者,反革命主义 regressive倒退的,倒退,累退的,累退 rightist右派,右派人士,右派分子,右翼分子 rigid刚性,僵化,刚性的,僵硬的 obscurantist愚民主义者,愚民主义者,愚民,愚民者 right对,正确,权利,对的 die-hard死硬派,死守,死忠,死硬派的 old-line老线,旧线,老字号,旧的线

Examples

Organising even the simplest load to Europe has become an almost impossible task due to the mountain of Tory red tape that was brought in on the 1st of January.
In WhatsApp group chats, even Londoners who hate Manchester United joked, “Any defender that tackles Rashford is a Tory.”
Newmark was approached online by “Sophie Wittams,” a blond, flirty, “twentysomething Tory PR girl.”
The map is mostly blue for Tory, after the last national election, when the Conservatives gained.
Of the 59 MPs elected to represent Scotland in the current U.K. Parliament, only one is a Tory.
“A Tory minister stepped out of the shadows to confront me,” Danczuk wrote in The Guardian.
Sniffing Tory conspiracies under every Whitehall bed, ours specially?
Well, 'Utchinson done very well; it's a strong Tory seat, is Croydon.
The Tory gentry, who were powerful in all the counties, had special grievances.
At last some ingenious Tory thought of a device by which it might be possible to strike the enemy without wounding friends.
I defend civilisation for the thing it is, for the thing it has come to be, the standpoint of a real old Tory.
It's a fact that the total figures out much larger than the Liberal Unionist.

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Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
plural To·ries, for 1-5.
- : a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- : a member of a political party in Great Britain from the late 17th century to about 1832 that favored royal authority over Parliament and the preservation of the existing social and political order: succeeded by the Conservative party.
- : an advocate of conservative principles; one opposed to reform or radicalism.
- : a person who supported the British cause in the American Revolution; a loyalist.
- : a dispossessed Irishman who resorted to banditry, especially after the invasion of Oliver Cromwell and suppression of the royalist cause.
- : a male or female given name.

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : of, belonging to, or characteristic of the Tories.
- : being a Tory.
- : opposed to reform or radicalism; conservative.

Examples

Organising even the simplest load to Europe has become an almost impossible task due to the mountain of Tory red tape that was brought in on the 1st of January.

In WhatsApp group chats, even Londoners who hate Manchester United joked, “Any defender that tackles Rashford is a Tory.”

Newmark was approached online by “Sophie Wittams,” a blond, flirty, “twentysomething Tory PR girl.”

The map is mostly blue for Tory, after the last national election, when the Conservatives gained.

Of the 59 MPs elected to represent Scotland in the current U.K. Parliament, only one is a Tory.

“A Tory minister stepped out of the shadows to confront me,” Danczuk wrote in The Guardian.

Sniffing Tory conspiracies under every Whitehall bed, ours specially?

Well, 'Utchinson done very well; it's a strong Tory seat, is Croydon.

The Tory gentry, who were powerful in all the counties, had special grievances.

At last some ingenious Tory thought of a device by which it might be possible to strike the enemy without wounding friends.

I defend civilisation for the thing it is, for the thing it has come to be, the standpoint of a real old Tory.

It's a fact that the total figures out much larger than the Liberal Unionist.