/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