Example Sentences

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What did Mann find so objectionable — above all, so un-German — about democracy?

From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2021

When faced with a must-win group stage match against an unfancied opponent, the Germans did a most un-German thing: They played like butt.

From Slate • Jun. 27, 2018

In the great square before Berlin University the new barbarians screamed "Down with un-German trash and smut!"

From Time Magazine Archive

What if the Nazis ban the Karl May westerns, what if they call them un-German because they are set in the American Wild West?

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

"Jitterbug dancing. Verboten. Reading un-German books. Singing un-German songs. Staying out past the ten o'clock curfew. Criticizing Adolf Hitler or the war. Verboten. Verboten. Verboten."

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti