anti-Western
- a word derived from western.
Example Sentences
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"We don't offer that as some humanitarian effort. It was, as with everything else Mr Roussev does, fixing for money. Mr Roussev is not an anti-western ideologue."
From BBC • May 9, 2025
Jane Campion’s brooding anti-western “The Power of the Dog” leads with 12 nods and is followed by Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic “Dune,” which goes into the show with 10.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2022
Mr. McMurtry wrote “Lonesome Dove” as an anti-western, a rebuke of sorts to the romantic notions of dime-store novels and an exorcism of the false ghosts in the work of writers like Louis L’Amour.
From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2021
Each was convinced that there could be only one valid interpretation of Islam and of sharia law, and that it lay in whatever appeared to be as anti-western as possible.
From The Guardian • Jun. 24, 2015
The program uses many arms of the state, including police and local government as well as voluntary groups and youth activists to help neighborhoods counter al Qaeda's anti-western message.
From Reuters • May 24, 2011
