Vocabulary
Dissent
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
the holding or expression of opinions at variance with those commonly or officially held.
Urdu meaning
اختلافات، اختلاف رائے
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- In Kenya, hundreds were arrested after nationwide protests, which Mwaura Kabata, vice president of the Law Society of Kenya, termed as `lawfare`, as the government weaponised domestic laws to curb offline and online dissent.
- Redesigning schools would mean we would have to include interrogation and investigation skills, allowing freedom of dissent and self-expression before our students can venture into the brave new world of technology-powered education.
- These are at play alongside institutional and ideational factors, such as stifling of dissent, repression of political opposition, state heavy-handedness, and as seen in the case of Nepal, internet and social media shutdowns.
- The fact that foreign powers, regional and global, play a part in encouraging and shaping political dissent towards out-of-favour regimes is not tinfoil hat thinking.
- In the absence of functioning institutions that allow this frustration to be resolved through the political process, street protests become a common way to showcase dissent.
Synonyms
disagreement, lack of agreement, difference of opinion, argument, dispute, demur;
Antonyms
agreement, acceptance
Curator example
“there was no dissent from this view”
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