Meaning of antimasker | Babel Free

Definitions

A person who is opposed to the practice or mandate of wearing masks.

neologism

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Examples

“On one side of the argument was a woman named Claire Newbourne, an anti-masker, a member of a group opposed to the government regulations on Marburg.”

“Every time a citizen disobeys mask rules by not wearing one, or wearing it incorrectly, they endanger essential workers who have⟳ already risked their lives to service them in restaurant, store, and many other public settings. In an odd way, anti-maskers see⟳ this as being patriotic.”

“Beightol, who is the administrator for several Facebook pages where public schools teachers can vent, said educators fall⟳ into three categories: vocal pro-maskers, vocal anti-maskers and pro-maskers who stay⟳ out of the line of fire.”

“The antimaskers are not at all concerned in the action; they are led into fill⟳ up the intervals with a grotesque kind of merriment, or, their grotesque dances, and then sink⟳ into nothing.”

“Then came groups of antimaskers giving a mirthful variety to the scene of splendor — a company of beggars riding on lean⟳ jades, another of birds, but, most popular of all with the civic Puritans who lined the streets, a mask satirizing those projectors who begged the illegal and unpopular patents of monopoly from the King.”

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