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US
/ˌaɪkənəˈkɫæstɪk/
]
[ UK /ˌaɪkənəklˈɑːstɪk/ ]
[ UK /ˌaɪkənəklˈɑːstɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- destructive of images used in religious worship; said of religions, such as Islam, in which the representation of living things is prohibited
- characterized by attack on established beliefs or institutions
How To Use iconoclastic In A Sentence
- It may belong in its iconoclastic period, the Sixties, but its subversive attack on state institutions rings as true as ever in our era of spin.
- The pioneers of wind energy are an iconoclastic lot, tilting, if you will, at the windmills of conventional energy wisdom and quixotically persisting in the face of difference and opposition.
- Zinberg was an iconoclastic Harvard drug researcher.
- Once irreverent and perhaps even iconoclastic, these shows relied too heavily on his reputation and weakening force of personality.
- That iconoclastic culture rejects the seductions of the representational.
- Today his message is more austere, more profound and more iconoclastic than ever.
- Wd very much have thought Toby was aiming for iconoclastic, not iconic, also unforced or unfocused? AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
- Again, like today's, its doings were chronicled by an irreverent, iconoclastic press eager for celebrity gossip and social scandal.
- So despite its essentially iconoclastic, subversive nature, photography permits, even encourages, the sporadic establishment of canons, traditions, and an academical standardization of ideas.
- Privatisation currently looms in the background as an iconoclastic aspiration always viewed with rose-coloured spectacles and about which many people speak but very few objectively map out.