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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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
He became a role model of antiauthoritarian individualism, which was great advertising for Nike.
From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2015
"There was always this kind of tech-hacker ethos, which was probably libertarian, which has collided with this antiauthoritarian political impulse," he said.
From Time ● Jun. 13, 2013
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
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