How to Use un-American in a Sentence

un-American

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• Look, there's almost no idea more un-American than the idea that any one person could choose which votes to count for president of the United States.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 13 Aug. 2023
• But convincing people to get out of them—even just for a stroll to the corner store—is viewed as dangerous, foolhardy, and maybe even un-American.
  — Max Holleran, The New Republic, 25 Apr. 2023
• So, there is nothing more un-American than having our personal freedoms taken away.
  — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 8 Apr. 2024
• Willfully electing a dictator to the presidency is the most un-American thing a citizen can do.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2024
• That’s why, in Maryland and elsewhere, a coalition of artists, creative economy leaders, civil rights and free speech groups, academics and lawyers have come together to stop this un-American practice.
  — Kevin Liles, Baltimore Sun, 6 Mar. 2024
• That double standard is both un-American and unacceptable.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 13 June 2023
• As a result, many Americans now accept the idea that, per Trump, government officials are un-American, incompetent, and corrupt.
  — Jon D. Michaels, Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
• This bipartisan effort is a step in the right direction toward abolishing an inherently un-American practice.
  — Jill Jacobson, National Review, 5 Aug. 2023
• None of that, however, exonerates the 352 Republican and Democratic members of Congress who voted for this idiotic, and patently unconstitutional, and irrefutably un-American, bill.
  — Thomas Knapp, Orange County Register, 14 Mar. 2024
• The same practices—treating communities of color as suspicious and potentially un-American, surveilling anti-racist movements while standing aside during escalating white supremacist violence—have continued.
  — TIME, 10 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 7 Aug 2024