Example Sentences

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But the fashion industry wasn’t always so enamored with looking American, whether narrowly defined as WASP-y or broadly characterized as un-European.

From Slate • Jul. 10, 2015

Jean-Claude Juncker, the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, recently accused Germany of being "un-European."

From Time • Feb. 28, 2011

In the process, a reluctant Berlin has been called irresponsible, selfish, even un-European.

From New York Times • May 3, 2010

The dispatch reported that Willy Brandt had just told a rally of his Social Democratic Party that De Gaulle, far from being a friend, was a "power-thirsty old man" obsessed by "rigid, un-European ideas."

From Time Magazine Archive

You dare be impudent,” Mr Vladimir began, with an amazingly guttural intonation not only utterly un-English, but absolutely un-European, and startling even to Mr Verloc’s experience of cosmopolitan slums. 

From The Secret Agent a Simple Tale by Conrad, Joseph