How to Use antidemocratic in a Sentence

antidemocratic

adjective

• Macron’s critics — and many on the street — see the move as antidemocratic.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
• This latest threat is one more warning sign: The GOP is on the path to become an antidemocratic party.
  — Jill Filipovic, CNN, 11 Jan. 2022
• The European Union plays a perverse antidemocratic part in this saga.
  — Robert Kuttner, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
• Moreover, websites on the far left and far right often echo the antidemocratic themes promoted by the Kremlin.
  — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 2 July 2017
• That has helped to fuel populist parties on both the right and the left, some of which are profoundly antidemocratic and xenophobic.
  — Margaret MacMillan, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2018
• In Europe, there are early glimmers that the wave of antidemocratic populism may have crested.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 28 Apr. 2022
• The antidemocratic and violent forces unleashed that day have not faded away.
  — Lawrence Norden, Foreign Affairs, 29 Mar. 2023
• Facing the prevailing antidemocratic winds of the present moment, that alone is cause for optimism.
  — Tom Ball, The New Republic, 1 July 2019
• There was something so antidemocratic, something so crude about that, that truly frightened me.
  — New York Times, 17 Mar. 2022
• Only the antidemocratic structure of the U.S. Senate and electoral college can keep the shaky values of minority rule in place.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• Still, while Brazil’s institutions held in the face of antidemocratic onslaught, several red flags have been raised.
  — Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2023
• And as long as much of the Republican Party keeps walking down its current antidemocratic path, the same will be true of subsequent elections as well.
  — Jill Filipovic, CNN, 30 Aug. 2022
• Still, the lawsuit still had broader implications for state-control of elections across the US and marks a blow for antidemocratic efforts to overturn free and fair elections.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 27 June 2023
• The constitution has been amended more than 50 times and stripped of most of the antidemocratic measures, according to law professors.
  — Ryan Dube, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2020
• Finding a voice to counter that antidemocratic rhetoric is proving surprisingly hard, so far.
  — James Stavridis, Time, 12 July 2018
• Harris has been made aware of López Obrador’s antidemocratic tendencies.
  — Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2021
• If the court’s legal reasoning is correct, obeying the rule of law produces an antidemocratic result.
  — Charlie Savage, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• So which side of the Roe argument is really antidemocratic?
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 May 2022
• Without Trump on the ballot in 2024, Democrats face a fraught task retaining the presidency because of the antidemocratic Electoral College.
  — George Tyler, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2021
• But they are motivated by a pathology that is deeply antidemocratic and concerning to anyone who cares about the future of this country.
  — Claudia Dreifus, The New York Review of Books, 1 June 2021
• And Trump's antidemocratic message is the one that has reverberated above all others.
  — NBC News, 7 Nov. 2020
• For Snyder, the malign influence of Russia’s antidemocratic turn does not end in Eastern Europe.
  — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
• The census’s democratic ideal of counting everyone has always been tempered by the deeply ingrained antidemocratic belief that some of us should count for less.
  — Jeremy Miller, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
• The fear now is that autocrats will be able to directly reference Trump's antidemocratic rhetoric to justify their own actions.
  — NBC News, 7 Nov. 2020
• What does this antidemocratic rampage have to do with architecture?
  — John King, SFChronicle.com, 7 Jan. 2021
• Brazil’s Supreme Court has drastically expanded its power to counter the antidemocratic stances of Mr. Bolsonaro and his supporters.
  — André Spigariol, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2022
• To no one's surprise, the South wanted to reframe the war in a manner that was sympathetic to the antidemocratic Confederacy, laying the foundation for the enduring Lost Cause myth.
  — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 2 Sep. 2021
• Romney, although disgusted by Trump's antidemocratic power grab, courted some of the same sentiments that Trump pushed.
  — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 3 May 2021
• Beijing is pursuing a raft of global initiatives designed to disintegrate the West and usher in an antidemocratic order.
  — Matt Pottinger, Foreign Affairs, 10 Apr. 2024
• Prabowo’s opponents argue that his record of military brutality and antidemocratic election denialism has merely been obscured by a smart campaign and that power would be dangerous in his hands.
  — Ben Bland, Foreign Affairs, 13 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2024