Definitions
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- adjective Marked by opposition or hostility to conventional social, political, or economic values or principles.
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- adjective Opposed to the political or cultural
establishment
Etymologies
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Examples
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In this way, of course, money only mirrors other aspects of our political moment, where the prevailing mood generally seems to swing from one kind of antiestablishment ethos to another.
NYT > Home Page By MATT BAI 2010
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In this way, of course, money only mirrors other aspects of our political moment, where the prevailing mood generally seems to swing from one kind of antiestablishment ethos to another.
NYT > Home Page By MATT BAI 2010
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- because of FSBOMadison.com and because of our "highly educates and liberal" "antiestablishment" culture.
Archive 2007-06-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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Perhaps his own critique of three decades ago was simply what Green now says of Who Killed Homer? ” "the kind of antiestablishment diatribe that tends to surface every thirty years or so."
'Who Killed Homer?': An Exchange Hanson, Victor Davis 1999
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Despite their antiestablishment and punk tendencies, Nirvana made the leap to a major label in 1991 when they signed with Geffen Records.
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Mr. Buck campaigned as an antiestablishment candidate who would do whatever it took to rein in government, even if it meant bucking GOP leadership.
Bennet Wins Colorado Senate Race Josh Mitchell 2010
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Or, as David Brooks wrote in Bobos in Paradise (Bobos is short for “bourgeois bohemians”): “Dumb good-looking people with great parents have been displaced by smart, ambitious, educated, and antiestablishment people with scuffed shoes.”
Class Dismissed 2009
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For that matter, why would the Soviets have picked someone as unabashedly antiestablishment as Jane to be a mole?
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Anonymous broke onto the scene two years ago as a loose federation of programmers fueling their antiestablishment bent on Web chat boards such as 4chan, where the user ID for millions is "Anonymous."
Anonymous Speaks Parmy Olson 2011
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Or, as David Brooks wrote in Bobos in Paradise (Bobos is short for “bourgeois bohemians”): “Dumb good-looking people with great parents have been displaced by smart, ambitious, educated, and antiestablishment people with scuffed shoes.”
Class Dismissed 2009
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