Dystopian

//dɪsˈtoʊ.pi.ən//

"Dystopian" in a Sentence (13 examples)

The film is set in a post-apocalyptic, dystopian future.

Tom and Mary watched a dystopian science-fiction movie.

Atwood won for "The Testaments," the follow-up to her dystopian 1985 masterpiece "The Handmaid's Tale."

Speculative fiction includes the genres of science fiction, fantasy, horror, superhero fiction, alternate history, utopian and dystopian fiction, supernatural fiction, dieselpunk, and steampunk, as well as combinations of those mentioned.

The 90s were such a bleak dystopian hellscape that people like Bill Clinton and Tony Blair were the best some countries had to offer for "opposition" to the reactionary zeitgeist.

In George Orwell's final novel, he explores a dystopian future in which a totalitarian government controls the actions, thoughts and even emotions of its citizens.

Both are dystopian.

Capitalism is dystopian.

If Suzanne Collins’ novel The Hunger Games turns up on middle-school curricula 50 years from now—and as accessible dystopian science fiction with allusions to early-21st-century strife, that isn’t out of the question—the lazy students of the future can be assured that they can watch the movie version and still get better than a passing grade.

In my book Britain has actually worked out how it wants to leave and the EU is preparing a new constitution as a result. The real Brexit is actually much more dystopian.

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He kept thinking about an episode of “Black Mirror,” the British dystopian anthology series, in which the characters rate everyone they interact with on a scale of 1 to 5 stars. (It doesn’t end well.)

The whole city is immersed in a dystopian-looking smog: urban streets in sepia, emptier than usual, bathed in an eerie quiet.

A pioneer of modern AI and Meta’s chief AI scientist, LeCun is one of the technology’s most vocal defenders. He scoffs at his peers’ dystopian scenarios of supercharged misinformation and even, eventually, human extinction.

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