Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective opposed to authoritarian government.
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- adjective Opposed to
authority - noun One who is opposed to
authority .
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- adjective opposed to authoritarianism
Etymologies
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Examples
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In Benghazi, the country's second-largest city and the hub of eastern Libya, a group of army colonels who recently defected said they are plotting the end their former commander's 42-year reign, which began to crumble last week as Libyans joined the antiauthoritarian protests roiling the Arab world.
Libya Rebels Tighten Noose Charles Levinson 2011
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And while most of the violence in London was characterized by looting, particularly of stores selling sports clothing and electrical goods, outside of the capital it took on an antiauthoritarian tone.
Riots Stoke British Ethnic Tensions Guy Chazan 2011
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"This is a new generation of terrorists that are more antiauthoritarian and less ideologically driven than the previous generation."
Greece Halts Mail, Hunts Bomb Suspects Nick Skrekas 2010
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About the best way to express his politics would to describe him as a antiauthoritarian socialist with “small a” anti-authoritarianism and “small s” socialism.
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"I will die here as a martyr," he had declared in February, when compatriots inspired by the region's antiauthoritarian fervor rose in fury against him.
Eccentric and Brutal, He Met End as a Fugitive Richard Boudreaux 2011
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The group is seen as antiauthoritarian and the targets may reflect their opposition to Greece's recent austerity program following a European Union-sponsored € 110 billion ($153.6 billion) bailout for the country earlier this year.
Greece Halts Mail, Hunts Bomb Suspects Nick Skrekas 2010
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BEIJING — The latest battle over Internet freedom in China is playing out in an online movie that pits an armored blue beast and his band of antiauthoritarian rogues against a sinister force called Harmony that seeks to clean up the Web.
Chinese Video Takes Aim at Online Censorship Loretta Chao 2010
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All I could see around me were anti-Vietnam, antiauthoritarian, antigovernment, antieverything, free-loving radicals.
Dancing with the Devil Louis Diaz 2010
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All I could see around me were anti-Vietnam, antiauthoritarian, antigovernment, antieverything, free-loving radicals.
Dancing with the Devil Louis Diaz 2010
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She also shrewdly observes that the event goes against Carlin's antiauthoritarian comedy.
Can We Talk? 2010
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