transgressive

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It adds to the discomfiture that this soft-spoken ex-journalist -- who cheerfully labels his work "transgressive" -- looks uncannily like Anthony Perkins circa Psycho.

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  1. adjective Exceeding a limit or boundary, especially of social acceptability.
  2. adjective Of or relating to a genre of fiction, filmmaking, or art characterized by graphic depictions of behavior that violates socially acceptable norms, often involving violence, drug use, and sexual deviancy.
  3. adjective Of or relating to geological transgression.

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  • That in itself is a fun art form, if somewhat copyright-transgressive.
  • She was recently suspended from Westlake High for smoking in the girls' lavatory, so I thought she'd do nicely for our 'transgressive' author This, this -- this is mere whining and annoying teenager slang, Mewborn! —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 02 - August 2003
  • The elevator pitch: impresses me as a bit of a transgressive, a fellow who enjoys tearing down borders, particularly where sexuality is concerned. —  GreenCine Daily
  • But I must absolutely insist upon an artist's right to be transgressive - what is human creativity without transgressions - regardless of how tyrranical the state is and how compliant and frightening the executioners (the authorities - the ACPs and the VCs) and how murdrous the vigilante fascists (the Bajrangis and their ilk) acting on behalf of this irreparably malignant state. —  Kafila
  • Short of any sign the kiosks would be actively transgressive, the matter of whether taxpayer money ought to be spent or invested or wasted or blown on public art was settled when laws were passed requiring some share of public works projects go toward art, of whatever sort. —  JSOnline.com
 

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  1. from Late Latin transgressivus, that goes or passes over, from Latin transgredi, pass over: see transgress.
 

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/trænsˈgrɛsɪv/
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