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- adjective Opposed to
consumerism - noun A person of anticonsumerist beliefs.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The walls are customarily crammed with the satirical works of co-founder Manit Sriwanichpoom known for his anticonsumerist "Pink Man" series.
BANGKOK CITY WALK: SURPRISES IN THE SHADOWS John Krich 2010
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Freegans, however, are a small anticonsumerist group who won't allow anything useful to go to waste -- to the point where middle-clas ...
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Freegans, however, are a small anticonsumerist group who won't allow anything useful to go to waste -- to the point where middle-clas ...
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Freegans, however, are a small anticonsumerist group who won't allow anything useful to go to waste -- to the point where middle-class environmentalists can be found scavenging the trash bins of grocery stores for the still-good food thrown out every day.
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As feminist author Susan Douglas observed in "Where the Girls Are," "Of all the social movements of the 1960s and '70s, none was more explicitly anticonsumerist than the women's movement."
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Dirk Bell's light box Panikearth, 2010, its middle four letters in emphasis, hovers like an anticonsumerist speech bubble.
artforum.com 2010
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Bluenoses out there -- anticonsumerist Buy Scolds -- would argue that dark forces conned my wife into thinking she needed a new little black dress in the first place.
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Norwegian churches started to burn, just after an underground scene of anticonsumerist metal musicians had begun to gel.
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