anti-imperialist
Americannoun
adjective
adjective
noun
Other Word Forms
- anti-imperialism noun
- anti-imperialistic adjective
Etymology
Origin of anti-imperialist
First recorded in 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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The author’s anti-imperialist energies have scarcely dimmed since the days when, as a professor in Kampala in 1981, he helped to found the Uganda-Korea Friendship Society.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025
You did have people forming the anti-imperialist league.
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2025
He was not an Amílcar Cabral, liberator of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, or a Thomas Sankara, the anti-imperialist revolutionary who led Burkina Faso - two men slain before their life's work was done.
From BBC • Jan. 13, 2023
The movie was also built on a consciously thin story, with thudding echoes of anti-imperialist westerns like “Dances With Wolves” and the fondly remembered eco-conscious animation “FernGully: The Last Rainforest.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2022
Being a convinced anti-imperialist, and having not a spark of antagonism to Germany, the early days of August, 1914, shocked no one in the world more than him.
From The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century by Phelps, William Lyon
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