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US
/dɪˈsɛntɝ/
]
[ UK /dɪsˈɛntɐ/ ]
[ UK /dɪsˈɛntɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a person who dissents from some established policy
How To Use dissenter In A Sentence
- In such instances, dissenters have a chance to go beyond a statement of what they, in theory, would do on an issue.
- Without the change, dissenters could argue that, given the Senate numbers, compromise was essential.
- The Foes were Dissenters, Protestants who did not belong to the Anglican Church, and Daniel's ironic attack on the church landed him a three-day stretch in the pillory.
- If dissent is voiced, self-appointed mind-guards apply verbal and non-verbal pressure to isolate dissenters.
- Some of the dissenters, provoked by the police use of tear gas against them, responded by torching Gabriel's house.
- In public debate the loud dissenters are steeped in the liberal creed.
- With just a few dissenters, those at the meeting voted to send a delegation to meet with Trevor Mallard to discuss the future of the school.
- A counterargument would stress that the greatest learning is derived from the inimitable, silence betrays cowardice, disaffiliation and indie culture give the lie to the unavoidability of affiliation, the literary field exists in many sites other than the academy, self-victimization is the reigning philosophy, program writers are more self-commodifying than the disaffiliated, the system purges internal feedback from dissenters, and the end of excellence is well in sight. Anis Shivani: Can Writing Be Taught? The Systems-Theory Rationalizations Of An Insider
- When Chinese dissenters claim that Chinese socialism is a form of feudalism they know whereof they speak.
- Yet the aid package passed in an instinctively isolationist Congress with only a modest handful of dissenters.