Definition of Standpatter

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Standpatter

standing waves
standings
standish
standishes
standoff
standoffish
standoffishly
standoffishness
standoffs
standout
standouts
standover
standovers
standpat
standpat(a)
standpatter (current term)
standpatters
standpattism
standpattisms
standpipe
standpipes
standpoint
standpoints
stands
stands down
stands for
stands in
stands on ceremony
stands out
stands up

Literary usage of Standpatter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Weldon Brinton Heyburn (late a Senator from Idaho): Memorial Addresses by United States Congress (1914)
"Senator HEYBURN was a " standpatter " because ... He was really a " standpatter " who bent backward. It will be impossible to find another man who will play ..."

2. Essays in Social Justice by Thomas Nixon Carver (1915)
"Even the socialist turns out to be a standpatter and a stickler for a laissez faire policy when it comes to a remedy for poverty which operates in ..."

3. Essays in Social Justice by Thomas Nixon Carver (1915)
"Even the socialist turns out to be a standpatter and a stickler for a laissez faire policy when it comes to a remedy for poverty which operates in ..."

4. La Follette's Autobiography: A Personal Narrative of Political Experiences by Robert Marion La Follette (1913)
"... for the time, being classed as a standpatter himself. That he not only was a standpatter, backing and cooperating with ..."

5. La Follette's Autobiography: A Personal Narrative of Political Experiences by Robert Marion La Follette (1913)
"... and touched the subject now and then with a deftness that enabled him to escape, for the time, being classed as a standpatter himself. ..."

6. Educational Measurements by Daniel Starch (1916)
"If he was in favor of territorial expansion as the goal of English politicians Value he was a standpatter. If he believed in the establish- 7.9 ment of ..."

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