anti-American

anti-American
/an'tee euh mer"i keuhn, an'tuy-/, adj.
1. opposed or hostile to the United States of America, its people, its principles, or its policies.
n.
2. an anti-American person.
[1765-75, Amer., in sense "anticolonial"; ANTI- + AMERICAN]

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