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anti-British

British  

adjective

  1. opposed to anything characteristic of or relating to Britain

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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President Joe Biden is not anti-British and his pride in his Irish roots does not preclude him from playing a supportive role in Northern Ireland's peace process, a White House official said on Wednesday.

From Reuters ● Apr. 12, 2023

Meanwhile, by mid-1940, anti-British sentiments had begun to erupt across India.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

Albie Amankona of Conservatives Against Racism has written to all of the party’s MPs to say they “really should be listening to people” when they say it is anti-racist, but not anti-capitalist or anti-British.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2021

This last extraordinary stratagem leads to months in which Jones, maniacally insisting that he has become a Turk, scribbles anti-British treatises, while an almost robotic Hill spends all his time fasting and reading the Bible.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 15, 2021

We allow ourselves to be far too easy with the phrase, "He is not pro-German, he is merely anti-British."

From Modern Essays by Harry Morgan Ayres

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