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alt-centre

alt-centre is the alternative form of alt-center.

Meaning of alt-center

Noun

alt-center (uncountable)

  1. (derogatory, slang) A set of centrist ideologies, especially those that delegitimize political dissent and sometimes rely on conspiracy theories, and whose presence is mainly confined to the Internet.
    • If Trump’s devoted hype squad of pustulent, oleaginous neo-Nazis can now be euphemized as the “alt-right,” the Eichenwalds and Jefferys of the world might have turned themselves into something similar: an alt-center, pushing its own failed political doctrine with all the same vehemence, idiocy, and...2016 December 16, Sam Kriss, “The Rise of the Alt-Center”, in Slate
    Synonyms:
    alt-middle

Questions about alt-centre

What is alt-centre the alternative form of?
Alt-centre is the alternative form of alt-center.

Words near alt-centre in the dictionary

  1. Alt-A
  2. alt-azimuth
  3. alt-azimuths
  4. alt-cannabinoid
  5. alt-center
  6. alt-centre
  7. alt-country
  8. Alt-F4
  9. Alt-F4ed
  10. Alt-F4ing
  11. Alt-F4s

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