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  • adjective Opposing mainstream culture or culture in general.

Etymologies

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anti- +‎ cultural

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Examples

  • Doing anything less is simply to accede to the anticultural thought-scrubbing jingoism that has been passed off as literacy curriculums since the Reading First thugs grabbed power over our schools in 2002.

    A Teacher Responds to Sopris West Propaganda Jim Horn 2008

  • Doing anything less is simply to accede to the anticultural thought-scrubbing jingoism that has been passed off as literacy curriculums since the Reading First thugs grabbed power over our schools in 2002.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Jim Horn 2008

  • He is the creator of the true Cynic type with all its burlesque, asocial and anticultural features, described in an abundance of Cynic anecdotes.

    CYNICISM RAGNAR H 1968

  • Carlos Fuentes called dropping "Aura" from the curriculum an arbitrary decision that amounted to an "antidemocratic, anticultural" act.

    daytondailynews.com - News 2010

  • Carlos Fuentes called dropping "Aura" from the curriculum an arbitrary decision that amounted to an "antidemocratic, anticultural" act.

    SFGate: Top News Stories 2010

  • Carlos Fuentes called dropping "Aura" from the curriculum an arbitrary decision that amounted to an "antidemocratic, anticultural" act.

    Brandon Sun Online - Top Stories 2010

  • Carlos Fuentes called dropping "Aura" from the curriculum an arbitrary decision that amounted to an "antidemocratic, anticultural" act.

    Newsvine - Get Smarter Here Associated Press 2010

  • Intellectually, multiculturalism is puny - and anticultural.

    Stony Creek Digest 2010

  • If only we were not so comfortable where we are, pretending to evangelize anticultural entities that now exist only to degrade.

    Touchstone Magazine - Mere Comments 2009

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