protester

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Arguing & disagreeing
agent provocateur
alienate
alienated
argue with someone
argumentatively
bone
conflict
flame
hammer
lock hornsidiom
non-circular
non-consensual
pick
piggy in the middle
provocateur
quarrel
quibble
says who?idiom
the fur fliesidiom
throw

Examples from literature

A single instance will suffice to put to silence all dissenters. 
Dissenters were then allowed by statute to meet behind locked or barred doors. 
It is hardly probable that many dissenters threw away the chance of such promotion on any frivolous pretext of religion. 
The mother was an interested listener, although a quiet dissenter. 
The same dissatisfaction and restlessness resulted in early and important amendments, but these did not satisfy all dissenters and doubters. 

Examples of dissenter

dissenter
It persecuted and prosecuted dissenters and recusants who stood in its path and it proclaimed its right so to do in innumerable sermons and treatises.
It can be hard to be a dissenter in the midst of a war conceived of as unconditional.
The judges considered that this entitled them to remove dissenters, and acted accordingly.
But there are other mechanisms beyond punishment of dissenters that also contribute to such a result.
Some claims by their very nature authorize a sort of dissenter's veto; they render sincere objections self-validating.
These groups' violent behavior is contingent upon interactions with dissenters and opponents.
Most dissenters from the established faith did their best to minimize the burdens placed on them.
The group studied here suggests this view needs to be modified, at least for dissenters.
The category "dissenter" did not include all religious minorities, and it placed the tolerated minorities at a disadvantage in almost all civil capacities.
Nationally, the dissenters counted 30.9 million stockholders and 84 million workers, but only 18 million unionists.
Loyalists were rewarded handsomely, while dissenters were harshly punished.
Romilly marked him as ' dissenter ' in the register, a matter of information only.
If decentralisation is extended beyond the separatist region, this may improve the credibility of government in the eyes of dissenters.
These notions of resistance and rebellion suggested a further notion of 'delinquency', with young people perceived as dissenters, struggling against a moral order.
The reformers, on the other hand, were mostly dissenters or evangelicals.
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