dadaist
Americanadjective
noun
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Then, the wine mom moved into her final, ironic stage: the surrealist meme, a dadaist take that almost brings the trope back to its real-life roots.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2025
“Three Busy Debras” is an oftentimes-absurd, dadaist comedy about three women with the same name who usually dress in white and have bizarre experiences.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2022
Le Bon cites key dadaist figures like Milan Kundera and the French photographer Claude Cahun as masters of using the absurdist framework to explore difficult-to-explain emotions.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2022
Eagles fans famously booed Santa Claus and threw snowballs at him in 1968, and their celebrations after the 2018 Super Bowl triumph turned the city’s police scanner into dadaist radio theater.
From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2020
The Dot wasn’t supposed to behave like a dadaist drill sergeant.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2019
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