dadaist
Americanadjective
noun
Example Sentences
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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
Under the spell of Presley’s painting and with her dadaist instincts at attention, she embraced her unsettling surroundings and created art out of the clutter.
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
Today, it’s Gilliam’s dadaist cutout intervals that stand up the best, as Flying Circus doesn’t seem to know when to let the joke die.
From The Guardian • Oct. 25, 2014
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