un-american

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.56 in modern English

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American usage; Informal

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"Besides, how can you talk about church politics? It would certainly be anti-Catholic and might easily become un-American."
"In 1959 ex-President Truman, never one to mince words, called the Committee the “most un-American thing in the country today.” Mr. Goodman strongly disagrees: “…unless one is prepared to blank out large and significant patches of our history, there is nothing un-American about the Un-American Activities Committee.”"
"Surely there is nothing strange or new or threatening about such a platform. It will distress only those who have the essentially un-American view that change itself is frightening and should be avoided at all costs."
""What was done to our country was wrong and unpatriotic and un-American and nobody has been held to account," he later told the Guardian. "There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.""
"It is an awful fact that the most powerful man in America may also represent the worst of America. In a way, Trump is the un-American president."
"“As an American, I was disgusted,” she said. “It was unpatriotic. It was un-American. We were watching the Capitol building get defaced over a lie.”"

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un-Americanness