dadaist

1. not comparableAlternative letter-case form of Dadaist.

plural dadaists

1. Alternative letter-case form of Dadaist.

   That's what Hans Richter, the unofficial spokesperson for the Berlin dadaists, called her because she served sandwiches at their gatherings.

   1998, Guerrilla Girls (Group of Artists), The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art, page 66

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   In 1976 and 1977, and the years to follow, as symbolically remade by the Sex Pistols, it was, perhaps, dadaists, lettrists, situationists, and various medieval heretics.

   1989, Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published 2009

alternative dadaist

1. not comparableIn the style of Dada.

   Breton's Surrealist movement transformed Dadaist despair -- at both the war and the technologies that had led to it -- into a constructive assault on social and sexual norms.

   2014 October 30, Ara Merjian, “How World War I gave birth to the modern”, in CNN

plural Dadaists · alternative dadaist

1. An artist or writer who practiced Dada.

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   To the world at large, relativity seemed to pull the rug out from under perceived reality. And for many advanced thinkers of the 1920s, from Dadaists to Cubists to Freudians, that was a fitting credo, reflecting what science historian David Cassidy calls "the incomprehensiveness of the contemporary scene--the fall of monarchies, the upheaval of the social order, indeed, all the turbulence of the 20th century."

   1999 December 27, Frederic Golden, “Albert Einstein (1879-1955): Person of the century”, in CNN