antiauthoritarian
Americanadjective
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resistant to authority, especially authority that is perceived to be intrusive or excessive.
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expressing or exemplifying such resistance.
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antiauthoritarians
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It was a time when an antiauthoritarian stance was the only artistically credible one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
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
It gets across Mr. Lethem’s antiauthoritarian streak, his instinctive distrust of preapproved canonical worthies like Updike, Saul Bellow and Thomas Pynchon.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2011
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
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
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