How to Use un-American in a Sentence
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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
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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
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So, there is nothing more un-American than having our personal freedoms taken away.
—Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 8 Apr. 2024
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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
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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
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That double standard is both un-American and unacceptable.
—Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 13 June 2023
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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
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This bipartisan effort is a step in the right direction toward abolishing an inherently un-American practice.
—Jill Jacobson, National Review, 5 Aug. 2023
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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
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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
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