transgress
verb (used without object)
transgressively
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a word derived from
transgress.
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a word derived from
transgressive.
transgressiveadjectiveviolating or challenging socially accepted standards of behavior, belief, morality, or taste: Transgressive fiction focuses on characters who feel confined by the norms and expectations of society and who break free in unusual ways.
Example Sentences
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To consume them would be to consume something that is transgressively edible, deliberately in opposition to societal norms.
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2024
But they also used their bodies to transgressively maintain intimacy, such as at the 1987 kiss-in at St. Vincent’s hospital.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2020
Eilish is maybe the most transgressively popular artist in pop music today, with billions of streams and a Billboard 200 chart-topping LP, “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2019
Donnersmarck grew up stringently Catholic, a choirboy, and he still attends Mass; as an artist, he frames his goals transgressively.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 14, 2019
It’s unnerving, it’s effective and, most transgressively, it’s chronological.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2018
