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Transgressive meaning

  1. Involving transgression; that passes beyond some acceptable limit; sinful.
  2. Going beyond generally accepted boundaries; violating usual practice, subversive.

Using Transgressive

  • The main meaning on this page is: Involving transgression; that passes beyond some acceptable limit; sinful. | Going beyond generally accepted boundaries; violating usual practice, subversive.
  • In the example corpus, transgressive often appears in combinations such as: of transgressive, transgressive and, more transgressive.

Context around Transgressive

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 20.8 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 9 middle, 9 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

something 1× less 1× affair 1× bold 1× intrinsically 1× considered 1×

Often after:

filmmaker 1× artists 1× politics 1× cinema 1× holmes 1× spectacles 1× woman 1× elements 1×

Sentence patterns with Transgressive

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

a less transgressive filmmaker would 1× and more transgressive 1× be considered transgressive 1× between the transgressive elements of 1× by the transgressive woman 1× do something transgressive and get 1× explicit and transgressive spectacles 1× figure is transgressive 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a less transgressive 1× a lot of 1× a woman who 1× all three saw 1× because i don 1× but the schoolgirl 1×

Common sentence endings:

and emmanuelle sequels 1× and more transgressive 1× and possibly fatal 1× and transgressive spectacles 1× be considered transgressive 1× embrace alternative haircuts 1×

Words around Transgressive

Just before it in the word index:

transgressions 99 transgression 66 transgressing 7 transgresses 5 transgressed 20 transgress 17

Just after it in the word index:

transgressor 8 transgressors 8 transgrid 5 transhipment 6 transhipped 3 transhuman 3

Similar in corpus frequency:

aar 34 abdulla 34 abimbola 34 abp 34 accommodative 34 accoutrements 34

Corpus analysis for Transgressive

  • In this selection, "transgressive" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, something, less, affair, filmmaker, artists and politics stand out and add context to how "transgressive" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a less transgressive filmmaker would and and more transgressive. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "transgressive" sits close to words such as aar, abdulla and abimbola, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with transgressive

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

A lot of transgressive artists are like that. (8 words)

The Victorians, she added, were fascinated by the transgressive woman. (10 words)

But the schoolgirl skirt, and thus the schoolgirl as a figure, is transgressive. (13 words)

Longer example sentences

You do something bold and it has the result you sought or you do something transgressive and get away with it, so the next thing you do is bolder and more transgressive. (32 words)

So she appears to have taken a creative and therapeutic decision to confront her dad’s looming death head-on, to cauterise the pain of death with outrageously explicit and transgressive spectacles. (32 words)

Because I don’t want people to have a 2023 idea of what y’all were doing, because it sounds much more transgressive when I’ve heard you talk about it. (31 words)

Question examples

But what shaped your artistic vision to be as intense, meaning sharp and transgressive at the same time? (18 words)

Example sentences (20)

You do something bold and it has the result you sought or you do something transgressive and get away with it, so the next thing you do is bolder and more transgressive.

A less transgressive filmmaker would have restricted the massacre scene to only a few minutes; heck, they would’ve the film with it and ended it with the assassination.

A lot of transgressive artists are like that.

Because I don’t want people to have a 2023 idea of what y’all were doing, because it sounds much more transgressive when I’ve heard you talk about it.

I'm looking for something that's transgressive, that sort of goes against the common wisdom.

There are things it has to say — not about transgressive politics and its comeuppance, but about what is seen to be politics-as-usual.

But what shaped your artistic vision to be as intense, meaning sharp and transgressive at the same time?

For me, it was the emotional infidelity, not the physical, that made the affair transgressive.

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It’s felt strangely bold – transgressive, even – to dress in “boy ” and embrace alternative haircuts.

Most of the “fun” has been bleached from this fair, so it feels worthy rather than rowdy, respectful instead of transgressive.

Queer director Darren Stein—whose own films like have cult followings—told : “I think all cult movies have something that’s intrinsically transgressive about them.

But the schoolgirl skirt, and thus the schoolgirl as a figure, is transgressive.

Here, then, are the most disturbing movies of all time, a list of transgressive cinema that will leave you shell-shocked and cowering.

I worry about building empathy in a world where hugging is seen as transgressive and possibly fatal.

Plus, Marissa and Laura delve into other, more transgressive, Holmes stories with female protagonists.

So she appears to have taken a creative and therapeutic decision to confront her dad’s looming death head-on, to cauterise the pain of death with outrageously explicit and transgressive spectacles.

The Victorians, she added, were fascinated by the transgressive woman.

All three saw Tantra as "the most transgressive and violent path to the sacred".

A woman who wears her husband's shirt to bed is considered attractive while a man who wears his wife's nightgown to bed may be considered transgressive.

Caught between the transgressive elements of her cult film and the mainstream appeal of soft-core pornography, she was unable to work in anything but exploitation films and Emmanuelle sequels.

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Common combinations with transgressive

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "transgressive" in a sentence?
An example: "You do something bold and it has the result you sought or you do something transgressive and get away with it, so the next thing you do is bolder and more transgressive." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "transgressive" from authentic English texts.
What does "transgressive" mean?
Transgressive means: Involving transgression; that passes beyond some acceptable limit; sinful.
How many example sentences with "transgressive" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "transgressive", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.