Dissentients [noun]
Definition of Dissentients:
person who goes against normal behavior, beliefs
Synonyms of Dissentients:
● Oddball
● Liberal
● Radical
● Sectary
● Freak
● Beatnik
● Maverick
● Dropout
● Weirdo
● Rebel
● Heretic
● Offbeat
● Bohemian
● Original
● Swinger
Sentence/Example of Dissentients:
It is remarkable that Devonshire was, and that Marlborough was not, one of the Dissentients.
In the commons the bill was carried with only forty dissentients, and in the lords apparently without a division.
But it is represented that the dissentients are few, and under the influence of one or two interested individuals.
She was also one of those very few whom Providence favours by confounding dissentients.
To this view there were some dissentients, Berzelius among them, but experimental proof for their contention was lacking.
Nevertheless, dissentients came in, and disputes have prevailed.
But it is curious to note that there were several dissentients among the commissioners to this paragraph of the report.
The motion having been seconded, was put, and declared to be carried, with only three dissentients.
The dissentients remarked that "believing is seeing," as some one cleverly said of spiritualism.
The resolution was carried with comparative few dissentients.