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Un-American   /ən-əmˈɛrəkən/   Listen
Un-American

adjective
1.
Considered contrary to the best interests of the United States.






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"Un-American" Quotes from Famous Books



... always at the hand-gallop up hill and down dale, and round the sharpest corner, urging their horses with cries and gesticulations and cruel rotatory spurs, checking them dead with a touch, or wheeling them right-about-face in a square yard. The type of face and character of bearing are surprisingly un-American. The first ranged from something like the pure Spanish, to something, in its sad fixity, not unlike the pure Indian, although I do not suppose there was one pure blood of either race in all the ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition - Vol. 2 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... this disgraceful and un-American spectacle happened in the streets of Worcester, a notice in the Central District Court appeared that "Miss Margaret Barry was charged with being a stubborn child and was sentenced to the Woman's Prison at Shearborn. ...
— Thirty Years In Hell - Or, From Darkness to Light • Bernard Fresenborg

... smile died out of her eyes, her face became very grave and very sweet. "I couldn't bear to have you bow your head to please a public not worthy of you. The play was un-American, and should not have been written ...
— The Light of the Star - A Novel • Hamlin Garland



Words linked to "Un-American" :   disloyal, unpatriotic



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