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Antonyms for silk-stocking
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : silk-stok-ing |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɪlkˈstɒk ɪŋ |
Definition of silk-stocking
- As in blue blood : noun noble descent
- As in right-winger : noun conservative
- As in rightist : noun conservative
- As in traditionalist : noun conservative
- As in conservative : noun person who is cautious, moderate; an opponent of change
- Here is your aristocrat, one of your silk-stocking gentry, at your service.
- Extract from : « Lincoln's Yarns and Stories » by Alexander K. McClure
- Didnt suppose you silk-stocking bunch in Sohmer ever had to work!
- Extract from : « Full-Back Foster » by Ralph Henry Barbour
- They were not influenced in the least by the silk-stocking reform view of Mr. Platt.
- Extract from : « Theodore Roosevelt » by Theodore Roosevelt
- I knew both the machine and the silk-stocking reformers fairly well, from many years' close association with them.
- Extract from : « Theodore Roosevelt » by Theodore Roosevelt
- Meanwhile, what became of the once aristocratic Opposition, with its 'silk-stocking gentry,' as they were termed?
- Extract from : « Continental Monthly, Vol. II. July, 1862. No. 1. » by Various
Synonyms for silk-stocking
- aristocrat
- bitter-ender
- Brahman
- classicist
- conserver
- conventionalist
- diehard
- hard hat
- middle-of-the-roader
- moderate
- moderatist
- noble
- obstructionist
- old guard
- old liner
- orthodox
- patrician
- preserver
- reactionary
- redneck
- right
- right-winger
- rightist
- silk-stocking
- standpat
- stick-in-the-mud
- thoroughbred
- titled person
- Tory
- traditionalist
- unprogressive
- upper-cruster
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