anticity

[an-tee-sit-ee, an-tahy-]

adjective

1. averse to cities and urban locations.

Example Sentences

“This anticity strategy existed long before Mayor de Blasio,” Mr. Phillips said, “but it’s especially misguided now, given the incomparable economic and public safety success of the city over the last few years.”

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"There is an anticity bias in the U.S. today that you don't find in Europe," Schall says.

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Vanaik points to the anticity, antidevelopment 10,000-strong rebel Naxalite army, which runs a virtual state in rural central India, as an example of the risks of rising discontent.

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