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dissidents
- Persons who refuse to conform to prevailing political and social values.
Example Sentences
And Trump remains in feverish pursuit of his political enemies, from high-powered figures to campus dissidents, with the Justice Department at his disposal.
Argentina’s military took power in a right-wing coup and launched a “dirty war” against dissidents, killing and “disappearing” thousands of victims.
Last year he won a second term by a landslide, after jailing dissidents and potential rivals.
Only last month Cambodia was praising Trump for shutting down the US media networks Voice of America and Radio Free Europe, which often carried the views of Cambodian dissidents.
Our political dissidents imagine us to be too flamboyant, too outrageous, too inappropriate, too obscene, too freaky and altogether too much to bear.
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