standpat
- s old-fashioned and out of date
- By whatever name, they stand for change, and thus oppose the standpat Italians of the Roman Curia.
- I am not a "Republican publisher" and if you consider Pathfinder to have been standpat Republican, certainly that is one policy I have altered and ended for good.
- Georgia's standpat segregationists got a shock with their Sunday paper this week.