Iconoclastic

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Characterized by attack on established and accepted beliefs, customs, or institutions; of or pertaining to iconoclasm..

Example Sentences

Many of Thomas Hardy's works were considered iconoclastic in his day.

I pose the iconoclastic suggestion that even at this late stage in B.R. dieselisation, rigid standardisation might be a shibboleth.

Harnessing its cultural cachet is not without problems, because some of these artists—true to their iconoclastic nature—resist being boxed in, dictated to or otherwise controlled.

“Hans Linde was an iconoclastic, original thinker, whose innovative ideas that state constitutions might afford greater protections than the federal Constitution, and that courts need to have an understanding of the legislative and administrative processes, are now conventional wisdom,” Judge Robert A. Katzmann of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York, said in an email.

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• more iconoclastic
• most iconoclastic

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