anarchist
IPA: ˈænɝkʌst
noun
- One who believes in or advocates the absence of hierarchy and authority in most forms (compare anarchism), especially one who works toward the realization of such.
- One who disregards laws and social norms as a form of rebellion against authority.
- (by extension) One who promotes chaos and lawlessness.
- One who resents outside control or influence on their life, in particular a government, and therefore desires the absence of political control.
adjective
- (somewhat rare) Relating to anarchism or to anarchists; anarchistic.
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Examples of "anarchist" in Sentences
- As the title states, Emma Goldman, famous feminist anarchist, is the focus of the collection.
- [Anyone planning to use the Anarchist Cookbook should note that the title does not specify which end of the cooking process the anarchist is on.]
- Deborah Orr has mistakenely udes the word 'anarchist' as a synonym for 'criminal' which is accepted without question these days , yet is so ignorant, wrong and mistaken.
- He has been called an anarchist, a socialist, a nationalist, a proto-fascist, an anti-Semite, a conman, a self-centered egotist, an animal rights advocate, a vegetarian, and a wife-stealing womanizer.
- I remember being shocked by her transformation from rich sheltered white girl to gun-totin 'anarchist (despite the fact it was clear in many of the surveillance tapes from banks and the like that she was as much a victim as the bank tellers).
- Tucker was famously strict in applying the term anarchist — he argued that professedly anti-statist communists such as Johann Most or the Haymarket martyrs were not in fact anarchists, but only governmentalists of a different stripe who had illegitimately appropriated the term from the proponents of individual property and free markets.
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