Conservatives
Tory
Tory noun - A person whose political beliefs are centered on tradition and keeping things the way they are.
Conservatives and Tory are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Conservatives" with "Tory", this nouns are similar.
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- steady and conservatives
- steady and Tory
- right and conservatives
- right and Tory
- firm and conservatives
- firm and Tory
- inflexible and conservatives
- inflexible and Tory
- moderate and conservatives
- moderate and Tory
- orthodox and conservatives
- orthodox and Tory
- reactionary and conservatives
- reactionary and Tory
Both words in one sentence
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Similarly, the pretty much universal "Tory" for British Conservatives originally meant something like "Papist Irish Bandit".
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Mocked in a sketch on A Bit of Fry and Laurie, "Young Tory of the Year," showing a competition in which judges evaluate Young Conservatives on their ability to make stirring keynote speeches from meaningless buzzwords.
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It should be noted that the Conservatives are [[Understatement not particularly popular in Scotland]], with the joke being that there are currently twice as many pandas in Scotland than there are Tory MPs.
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Tory and Conservatives. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/conservatives/tory
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