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transgressive
[trans-gres-iv, tranz-]
adjective
violating or challenging socially accepted standards of behavior, belief, morality, or taste: Transgressive fiction focuses on characters who feel confined by the norms and expectations of society and who break free in unusual ways.
We welcome those who are engaged in consensual, albeit transgressive sexualities.
Transgressive fiction focuses on characters who feel confined by the norms and expectations of society and who break free in unusual ways.
violating a law, rule, command, or duty, or causing harm by doing so.
We need to develop principled arguments that demonstrate the essentially transgressive nature of activities that damage the natural environment.
transgressive
/ ˌٰæԳˈɡɛɪ /
adjective
going beyond acceptable boundaries of taste, convention, or the law
transgressive art
transgressive pursuits
Other 51Թ Forms
- ٰԲˈ adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of transgressive1
Example Sentences
There was something transgressive and liberating about an aesthetic that inverted not only good and bad taste but also conventional and unconventional morality.
While the celebrities in these clothes aren’t explicitly transgressive figures, their presence in this world of high status is in a sense a form of transgression.
What Carti brought to Rolling Loud was a volatile proposition — some of the most truly transgressive music to ever top streaming and Billboard charts, aesthetically uncompromising and veiled with real menace.
Now Trump has brought that mindset to the Oval Office which, I suppose, isn’t surprising given the subleasing of his presidency to the hyperactive and assertively transgressive Elon Musk.
It was Wray’s turn to stand up to Trump and against Patel’s ascension, and to underscore by his inevitable firing how transgressive Trump’s action is.
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