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anti-establishment

Adjective

Meaning

anti-establishment

Opposed to the existing sociopolitical system (the establishment).
The hippies were noted for their anti-establishment ways, firmly opposed to the order their parents so revered.

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I was proud to have been the anti-establishment candidate after more than twenty years in politics, a small town guy fighting for the ordinary Canadian. Jean Chrétien

'Bonnie and Clyde,' while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers. Bryan Burrough

I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory. Mickey Kaus

If you have a personality predisposed to liberalism, you might gravitate more to the artsy crowd or the anti-establishment crowd. And then those peers will affect you, and they will give you values, and you will copy them. Jonathan Haidt

There is a growing global anti-establishment revolt against the permanent political class at home, and the global elites that influence them, which impacts everyone from Lubbock, Tex., to London, England...We look at London and Texas as two fronts in our current cultural and political war. Steve Bannon

And while such anti-establishment attitudes predate Trump, he has eagerly stoked them further for his own political gain.” Source: Internet

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