How to Use un-American in a Sentence

un-American

adjective
  • 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
  • Trying to suppress and denigrate someone who doesn’t share your views is abhorrent and un-American .
    Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 18 June 2024
  • 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
  • My exclusion by Presidents Biden and Trump from the debate is undemocratic, un-American, and cowardly.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 20 June 2024
  • 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
  • Political violence is un-American and is never acceptable—never.
    Stephanie Murray, The Arizona Republic, 13 July 2024
  • 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
  • Political violence is unacceptable, senseless, and un-American.
    David Lightman, Sacramento Bee, 14 July 2024

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