antisemitic
or an·ti-Se·mit·ic
prejudiced or hostile toward Jews: They had come to reject the antisemitic views of their grandparents’ generation.Critics have cited the candidate’s antisemitic comments.
Origin of antisemitic
1usage note For antisemitic
Other words from antisemitic
- an·ti·se·mit·i·cal·ly, adverb
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How to use antisemitic in a sentence
A few years back, designer John Galliano was fined by the government for sharing just such anti-semitic sentiments in public.
Politicians Only Love Journalists When They're Dead | Luke O’Neil | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThe “doctorate” Duke claims is from an anti-Semitic Ukranian “diploma mill” as described by the State Department.
Parliament looks at measures to monitor toddlers for anti-Semitic speech.
Britain May Spy on Preschoolers Searching for Potential Jihadis | Nico Hines | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThough he would insist in a famous essay in Other Inquisitions that “For several reasons I am not anti-Semitic.”
Borges Had A Genius For Literature But Not Love Or Much Else | Allen Barra | October 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHitler was profoundly anti-Semitic, but he was also anti-Modern.
The anti-Semitic feeling in the United States is due, in my opinion, to several causes.
The Modern Ku Klux Klan | Henry Peck FryThis was the editio princeps of a number of forged anti-Semitic documents, of which the Nilus Protocols are the latest redaction.
The myth of the Jewish menace in world affairs | Lucien WolfThe Clerical and Anti-semitic parties exploit the incident with inaccurate though artistic journalistic embellishments.
Modernities | Horace Barnett SamuelAn adroit feature of the anti-Semitic campaign was an appeal to national patriotism to rid the army of Jewish influence.
The anti-Semitic riots of that year have perhaps never been exceeded in ferocity and indiscriminate destruction.
Races and Immigrants in America | John R. Commons
British Dictionary definitions for anti-Semitic
prejudiced against or hostile to Jews
Derived forms of anti-Semitic
- anti-Semitically, adverb
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