antigovernment
Speech parts
1. antigovernment - Noun
2. antigovernment - Adjective
Meaning
Opposed to a government currently in power.
Antigovernment protesters marched in the capital.
Opposed to government in general.
They have an antigovernment philosophy.
antigovernment (plural antigovernments)
A government set up to oppose another government.
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Examples
I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
Antigovernment protesters amassed in the country’s capital to oppose President Alexander G. Lukashenko, in the largest demonstration since he claimed a sixth term in a fraud-tainted election last week.
Antigovernment protests continued this weekend in Belarus, as demonstrators call for President Alexander Lukashenko to resign.
In a 1977 essay on Catch-22, Heller stated that the "antiwar and antigovernment feelings in the book" were a product of the Korean War and the 1950s rather than World War II itself.
The 1990s saw the rise and fall of the virulently antigovernment “Patriot” movement, made up of paramilitary militias, tax defiers and so-called “sovereign citizens.”
Many of them were longstanding antigovernment figures, including former Arizona sheriff Richard Mack, whose fame on the radical right has much to do with his own challenge of federal gun laws and “III Percent” movement provocateur Mike Vanderboegh.