Anti-Americanism

[an-tee-uh-mer-i-kuhn, an-tahy-]

an·ti-A·mer·i·can

[an-tee-uh-mer-i-kuhn, an-tahy-]
adjective
1.
opposed or hostile to the United States of America, its people, its principles, or its policies.
noun
2.
an anti-American person.

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Anti-americanism is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.

Origin:
1765–75, Americanism, in sense “anticolonial”; anti- + American

an·ti-A·mer·i·can·ism, noun
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