Iconoclast

Iconoclast – Word of the Day

Tuba Mansoor
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/īˈkänəˌklast/

Meaning

  • a person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions.
  • a person who destroys religious images or opposes their veneration

Sample Sentences

  • An iconoclast, he seemed to relish his outsider status and thoroughly excoriated the other candidates at every opportunity. .
  • Her slim, eclectic volume relates how California was a beacon for all manner of health-conscious reformers, iconoclasts, and quacks, long before the days of the hippies.
  • This remained true during the 1930s, when Elsa Schiaparelli, ever the iconoclast, made leopard booties.

Related words

critic, sceptic, questioner; heretic, nonconformist, dissident, dissenter, dissentient;malcontent, rebel, subversive, renegade, mutineer; maverick; original, innovator

Further Reading

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/iconoclast

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/iconoclast

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