iconoclastic

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

adjective characterized by attack on established beliefs or institutions
adjective destructive of images used in religious worship; said of religions, such as Islam, in which the representation of living things is prohibited

From iconoclast + -ic.

The "Age of Reason" has long been both exaggerated and despised as an iconoclastic work. — Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre, Voltairine De Cleyre
Simultaneously, the imaginary attributes of the idol disappearing, and vanity being satiated, all ends in a crash of iconoclastic surfeit. — Tancred; Or, The New Crusade, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
He was daringly human for the time in which he lived, it being the hour when humanity was overpowered by deity, and to be human was to be iconoclastic. — In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim, Frances Hodgson Burnett

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