countercultural

[kaun-ter-kuhl-cher-uhl]

adjective

1. challenging or resisting the established values, customs, or norms of a culture.

Example Sentences

She was the height of countercultural cool.

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The second documented the paradoxical state of affairs in which America’s poor live by the countercultural values taught to them by elites, while elites abide by traditional conceptions of work and marriage.

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In its city sprawl and California light, L.A. has fostered legendary writers from Joan Didion to Octavia E. Butler, created countercultural literary communities like the Watts Writers Workshop, and inspired Raymond Chandler’s “The Long Goodbye” and Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451.”

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Yes, there’s a turntable, along with an iPhone and posters of other countercultural figures from earlier generations.

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“After achieving ubiquity in the 2010s and early 2020s, plant-based milks may have lost their cool, nonconformist quality — much like how, after more than a decade of liberal cultural supremacy, embracing authoritarian revanchism now feels like countercultural rebellion,” Bolotnikova wrote.

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