Example Sentences

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Diaz’s refusal to fight over the past six years was frustrating to those who want to see him in action, but also perfectly in line with his antiauthoritarian persona.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 24, 2021

Cruyff, a cheeky young man from a working-class neighborhood, played for Ajax Amsterdam in the city of the antiauthoritarian Provo movement.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2014

There might be some remakes — high on the list are the Quatermass movies, whose hero was an antiauthoritarian, maverick scientist.

From Time • Dec. 9, 2010

She also shrewdly observes that the event goes against Carlin's antiauthoritarian comedy.

From Newsweek • May 13, 2010

Still, those writers would likely have been thinking of Indians without him—the essayist Montaigne had noted the same antiauthoritarian attitudes a century earlier.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann