anti-American

[an-tee-uh-mer-i-kuhn, an-tahy-]

adjective

1. opposed or hostile to the United States of America, its people, its principles, or its policies.

noun

1. an anti-American person.

anti-American

adjective

1. opposed to anything of or relating to the United States of America

Other Word Forms

• anti-Americanism noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of anti-American¹

1765–75, in sense “anticolonial”; anti- + American

Example Sentences

“But one thing I did learn from Lenny Bruce, and George Carlin, and Howard Stern is that a government threat to silence a comedian the president doesn’t like is anti-American. That’s anti-American.”

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The host added: "A government threat to silence a comedian the president doesn't like is anti-American," before repeating for emphasis: "That's anti-American."

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The new free speech rules contain no mention of international students or a ban on “anti-Western, anti-American” ideas.

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Matthew Tragesser, a spokesperson from US Citizenship and Immigration Services, said in a statement: "America's benefits should not be given to those who despise the country and promote anti-American ideologies."

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The president has made clear he sees top schools as hotbeds of liberal ideology and breeding grounds for anti-American sentiment.

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