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n. - A work of fiction describing an imaginary place where life is extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terror; State in which the condition of life is extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror.

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  • Your beautiful dystopia is well on its way under the direction of your dear leader.
  • Set in 2052, the game†™ s dystopia is caused by a new plague which hits humanity.
  • The issue of the missing dystopia is only one of them (though, a not-inconsiderable one).
  • I wanted to try a dystopia from the female point of view - the world according to Julia, as it were.
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