dissidence
dissident
adjective
uk /ˈdɪs.ɪ.dənt/ us /ˈdɪs.ə.dənt/
publicly disagreeing with and criticizing your government or political party:
a dissident group/writer
This new policy will ensure those dissident voices and others will be heard without undermining our sanctions policy.
He was a dissident candidate of the Liberal Party.
But Democrats and dissident Republicans have been successful on a handful of key votes.
I don't easily obey. I won't say I am dissident, but I am honest and speak out.

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dissident | American Dictionary

dissident
noun[ C ]
us/ˈdɪs·ə·dənt/
politics & government
a person who strongly disagrees with and publicly criticizes a government or the official rulings of a group or organization:
Union dissidents have challenged the leadership of the current president.

dissident

adjective[ not gradable ]us/ˈdɪs·əd·ənt/
dissident views

Examples of dissident

dissident
There would be no need for curfew as all the dissidents were arrested at less than the first second of the coup.
As we identified, a group of the dissidents may be composed of three different types: ambitious juniors, mid-career policy seekers and antagonistic seniors.
In some cases, however, existing unions were brought to embrace syndicalism; in others dissidents broke away to found their own syndicalist unions.
At the same time, even the most prominent dissidents of that period expressed protest from within a discourse of "authentic" socialism.
Many dissident ideas still belong to the coffee room or the pub.
And if they are present, then they cannot truly be dissident; they are necessarily conservative.
The successful performance by the dissident émigré has a deeply paradoxical character.
This would have indeed been an unwise risk in light of the severe punishments meted out to captured dissidents.
The author is hot - the winner of a prestigious literary prize or a recently jailed dissident.
Both camps, of course, have their internal dissidents.
How can a dissident be socially influential and yet remain a dissident?
However, from 1936 the situation was to undergo a radical change, in part because any dissident voice would henceforth be silenced.
Here tales of ruthless courtsponsored persecution of dissidents appear fundamental.
With scant time for debating dissident opinions, subtleties, caveats and managerial guidelines are too readily eliminated or ignored during the reiterations of drafting or broadcasting.
In effect, an urbane, classically educated political dissident had to imagine and try to articulate convincingly the mental world of an uneducated, provincial soldier.
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