xenophobically

xen·o·pho·bic

[zen-uh-foh-bik, zee-nuh]
adjective
unreasonably fearful of or hating anyone or anything foreign or strange.

Origin:
1905–1915;xenophob(ia) + -ic

xen·o·pho·bi·cal·ly, adverb
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xenophobia (ˌzɛnəˈfəʊbɪə) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
hatred or fear of foreigners or strangers or of their politics or culture
 
xeno'phobic
 
adj

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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.
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Word Origin & History

xenophobic
1912, coined from Gk. xenos "foreign, strange" + phobos "fear" (see phobia).
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