anarchic
adjective
Examples of anarchic in a Sentence
Lucas Trevor, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
The mainstream is now fractured into pieces; former gatekeepers in the media and entertainment industry are constantly undermined; the internet has created anarchic new routes for public figures to reach an audience.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2024
The group’s anarchic music was like one of those cartoon fight clouds, with punk, post-punk, industrial, goth, psychedelia, college rock, and collage rock duking it out with old EC Comics, MAD magazines, and the Lone Star proclivity toward general orneriness.
—Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 26 Mar. 2024
Flamingo Camp strikes me as the most chill, put together encampment in Slab City, a site that focuses less on individual anarchic self-expression than a communal, co-op living situation in an area that’s basically off the grid.
—Jonah Gercke, SPIN, 15 Mar. 2024
But all that was cast aside for a rollicking event to celebrate a movie with an anarchic energy.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2024
The group’s shows were improvisational, anarchic, free-associative.
—Brian Seibert, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2024
Same goes for the very last sequence in the film, which seems to represent a fulfilment of Lena’s anarchic fantasies, directly contradicting what came just before.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 19 Feb. 2024
This is the real life story of how this anarchic Belfast trio became the unlikely figureheads of a civil rights movement to save their mother tongue.
—Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2024
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Word History
probably borrowed from New Latin anarchicus, from Medieval Latin anarchia anarchy + Latin -icus -ic entry 1
circa 1656, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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