anarchic
adjective
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disorderly, lawbreaking, lawless, unruly
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While the lunar landing bonds the community with wonder and awe, the anarchic music festival underlines the cultural shift and divide occurring at the same time. — SFChronicle.com, "World premiere musical ‘Walk on the Moon’ in S.F. mostly captures spirit of 1969," 16 June 2018 Does this suggest an anarchic youthful urge to transcend oppressive barriers or to reinforce them? — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, "Are Hate-Crime Laws Helping?," 22 Feb. 2019 But that’s not to say that rave—proper, unlicensed, anarchic, counterculture revelry—has withered and died. — Luke Leitch, Vogue, "In London, Rave Culture Is Alive and Unwell at Sports Banger," 18 Feb. 2019 Certain life parallels pertain with the Swedish creator of that other favorite red-headed girl in children’s literature, the eccentric, anarchic, incorrigibly cheerful Pippi Longstocking. — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, "Children’s Books: Of Stories and Storytellers," 27 Sep. 2018 Virginia, which began the season unranked in the Associated Press poll, might be considered the prohibitive favorite, as much as the notoriously anarchic tournament can be said to have one. — Marc Tracy, New York Times, "Virginia Tops N.C.A.A. Bracket in a Season Marked by Scandal," 11 Mar. 2018 But Posner’s whimsical, anarchic, eerily hypnotic works are otherwise unique in their style, sensibility, and goofy humor. — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, "Village theatricals; film and fashion; Posner on parade," 5 Apr. 2018 Detroit twirls a sign on the street to finance her radical artwork and dabbles in secret anarchic anti-corporate activism. — Katie Walsh, kansascity, "‘Sorry to Bother You’ skewers corporate and cultural corruption," 12 July 2018 Still, their words, backed by often-daunting imagery and disturbing historical perspective (oh, those Belgians!), provide a haunting window into a deeply anarchic world too-rarely glimpsed. — Gary Goldstein, latimes.com, "Documentary 'This Is Congo' views war-torn African nation through four lives," 28 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'anarchic.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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