Antonyms for sixtiessix·ties

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1. sixtiesnoun

   Synonyms:
   1960s, 60s

2. sixtiesnoun

   The decade of the 1860s, 1960s, etc.

   Synonyms:
   1960s, 60s

3. sixtiesnoun

   The decade of one's life from age 60 through age 69.

   Synonyms:
   1960s, 60s

Matched Categories

1. • Decade
   • Time Of Life

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1. sixties, 1960snoun

   the decade from 1960 to 1969

   Synonyms:
   mid-sixties

2. sixties, mid-sixtiesnoun

   the time of life between 60 and 70

   Synonyms:
   mid-sixties

How to use sixties in a sentence?

1. Andy Warhol:

   It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous.

2. Bob Dylan:

   People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around -- the music and the ideas.

3. John Lennon:

   We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

4. Joan Didion:

   Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.

5. Gerald Eskenazi:

   Don't forget, this still was the Sixties, long hair was controversial and the establishment was being given a battle from upstart newcomers, the symbolism was perfect, and it was all there.

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