antiauthority

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ authority.

Adjective

antiauthority (comparative more antiauthority, superlative most antiauthority)

  1. Opposed to authority.
    • 2021 April 9, “Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community”, in Office of the Director of National Intelligence‎[1], page 24:
      This diverse set of extremists reflects an increasingly complex threat landscape, including racially or ethnically motivated threats and antigovernment or antiauthority threats.
    • 2021 April 13, Katie Bo Williams and Zachary Cohen, “US intelligence community warns of devastating long-term impact of coronavirus pandemic”, in CNN‎[2]:
      Domestic extremists are motivated by a range of ideologies which “reflects an increasingly complex threat landscape, including racially or ethnically motivated threats and antigovernment or antiauthority threats,” the report says.

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