antiestablishment

[ an-tee-i-stab-lish-muhnt, an-tahy- ]

/ ˌæn ti ɪˈstæb lɪʃ mənt, ˌæn taɪ- /

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adjective

opposed to or working against the existing power structure or mores, as of society or government: Antiestablishment candidates promised to disband the army, Congress, and the cabinet if elected.

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Origin of antiestablishment

First recorded in 1955–60; anti- + establishment

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How to use antiestablishment in a sentence

Before anti-vaxxers, there were anti-fluoriders: a group who spread fear about the anti-tooth decay agent added to drinking water.
Anti-Fluoriders Are The OG Anti-Vaxxers|Michael Schulson|July 27, 2016|DAILY BEAST
Satirists occupy a perilous position—to skewer dogma and cant, and to antagonize the establishment while needing its protection.
Harry Shearer on The Dangerous Business of Satire|Lloyd Grove|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
A few years back, designer John Galliano was fined by the government for sharing just such anti-semitic sentiments in public.
Politicians Only Love Journalists When They're Dead|Luke O’Neil|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Satirists are reliant ultimately on the very establishment they mock.
Harry Shearer on The Dangerous Business of Satire|Lloyd Grove|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST

The “doctorate” Duke claims is from an anti-Semitic Ukranian “diploma mill” as described by the State Department.
The Price of Steve Scalise’s Silence|Jason Berry|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Mrs. Wurzel was quite right; they had been supplied, regardless of cost, from Messrs. Rochet and Stole's well-known establishment.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
We had half a dozen passengers to Ferrara; for the rest of the way, I had this extensive traveling establishment to myself.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
To give him a party name, he became an anti-clerical, strictly in a political and lawful sense.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
On the establishment of the Empire Berthier, like many another, received the reward for his faithfulness to Napoleon.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
If schooling is a training in expression and communication, college is essentially the establishment of broad convictions.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

British Dictionary definitions for antiestablishment

anti-Establishment

adjective

opposed to established authority

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