词汇 | undemocratic |
释义 | undemocratic adjective uk /ˌʌn.dem.əˈkræt.ɪk/ us /ˌʌn.dem.əˈkræt̬.ɪk/ not based on the principles of democracy: 不是基于民主原则的 He had ruled in an undemocratic manner, deploying a secret police and press censorship.他的统治方式不民主,使用秘密警察并且压制新闻自由。 an undemocratic regime不民主的政权 Opposite democratic Systems of government absolutism advanced capitalism ancien régime anti-apartheid anti-communism democrat democratic democratically democratization democratize junta kakistocracy kleptocracy kleptocratic majority rule plutocracy plutocratic police state post-apartheid pre-fascist Related wordundemocratically Examples of undemocraticundemocratic Initially, responses to them exhibit a combination of fascination with the exotic and a markedly undemocratic appreciation of their aristocratic heritage. Although he expressed dissatisfaction with the existing poor law and its administration, the report's proposals were criticized as undemocratic and bureaucratic. If corruption is bred by undemocratic regimes and is left unchecked long enough, unofficial rules produce unintended, damaging consequences for civil society. True, there is nothing intrinsically undemocratic about expectations that government should grant both negative and positive rights. In all three countries, hardly anyone considers themselves less free in their new regime than in an undemocratic regime. In the middle of our country - our own country - parallel societies are developing where minorities practise their medieval norms and undemocratic modes of thought. Only the ballots would be burned without being counted, and candidates would be selected by the oligarchy using its traditional undemocratic methods. He notes that for much of the colonial period, precolonial societies were projected as undemocratic. Such terms fail to capture individual difference and may be patronising and undemocratic. When it does not, it is regarded as intolerant, undemocratic, even despotic and self-referential. Their reproach that such a thing was undemocratic was rejected by the proponents. First, he establishes that both undemocratic regimes were corrupt at the elite level. An elected but undemocratic body of the nation's representatives - citizens - was to rule in place of the divine authority of a solitary monarch. The historians' reluctance to describe conservatism as essentially undemocratic probably stems from most conservatives' reluctance to accept that description. Some were composed primarily of self-appointed vigilantes who engaged in undemocratic, violent and arbitrary forms of control. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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