How to Use xenophobe in a Sentence
xenophobe
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So why does the picture of the Gilets Jaunes as far-right xenophobes persist?
—Christopher Ketcham, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
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In 2017, notorious xenophobe Geert Wilders came up short in the Netherlands.
—Ian Bremmer, Time, 8 Mar. 2018
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Lovecraft was an unabashed racist, xenophobe, and anti-semite.
—Adam Epstein, Quartz, 27 Jan. 2020
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The staff, for instance, is not composed of only knee-jerk xenophobes and hillbilly rabble-rousers.
—Tina Nguyen, The Hive, 4 Apr. 2017
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But from a xenophobe’s perspective, the face mask seemed to implicate foreigners as agents of diseases.
—New York Times, 12 Apr. 2020
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Anyone who challenges [the establishment’s] control is deemed a sexist, a racist, a xenophobe, and morally deformed.
—David Montgomery, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2021
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García Hernández outlines the history that gave Trump his xenophobe’s toolbox.
—Lawrence Downes, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2020
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Everybody knows that the president is a racist and a xenophobe who draws fervent support from outright white nationalists.
—David Klion, The New Republic, 18 Sep. 2019
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This president has given a voice to every abuser, bigot, bully, misogynist, racist and xenophobe in the country.
—J.d. Crowe | Jdcrowe@al.com, al.com, 16 July 2019
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As the early front-runner, Biden has focused much of his political fire on Trump, arguing the president is a divisive racist xenophobe.
—Bill Ruthhart, chicagotribune.com, 16 Aug. 2019
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Even China’s vaunted propaganda machine that slanders its critics as racists and xenophobes no longer works.
—Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 23 Apr. 2020
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But May, in seeking to appease the xenophobes, has said that restricting immigration is her first priority.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2017
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In the aftermath of the election, for all the shrill charges that Trump is a racist, bigot, nativist, and xenophobe, the identity-politics industry is silently making some subtle concessions.
—Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 3 Aug. 2017
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The new mayor is a strident xenophobe, given to outbursts of nationalistic language that give Jägerstätter pause.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2019
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The Supreme Court upholding the Muslim travel ban is devastating, too, in a victory this week for xenophobes that will surely lead to further human-rights violations.
—Vanessa Hua, SFChronicle.com, 27 June 2018
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Many liberals, after all, don’t hesitate to rip Trump as a racist, misogynistic xenophobe who has only further divided the country during his first term.
—Tom Benning, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2020
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Back in the 1990s, xenophobes in Germany would taunt Turkish immigrants at sports stadiums by waving plastic bags in the air, the flimsy type from inexpensive malls where immigrant families did their shopping.
—Can Dündar, Time, 25 Feb. 2020
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The party panders to a grab-bag of conservative impulses, giving a political home to climate-deniers, Euroskeptics, xenophobes and chauvinists tired of Germany having to atone for the Holocaust.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2017
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These labels are strikingly similar to the allegations heard on either side of the Brexit debate: Leave voters are isolationist, close-minded xenophobes.
—Sahil Handa, National Review, 10 June 2019
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Nine parties will enter parliament, including everything from communists to far-right xenophobes, and there is no obvious coalition.
—The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
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This is why nationalist politicians who raise the threat of war win supporters for stopping foreigners: thinking about our possible death can turn us into self-righteous, aggressive, inward-looking xenophobes.
—Dan Cable, Scientific American, 13 May 2020
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Following his presidency, our country elected a racist xenophobe.
—Jeneé Osterheldt, kansascity, 17 May 2018
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Morrissey sniffs, at best showing poor judgment, at worst demonstrating how racists and xenophobes let their own insecurities fuel discrimination.
—Kenneth Partridge, Billboard, 14 Mar. 2018
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Far from ascendant, liberalism seemed in retreat: Autocrats tightened their fists; nationalists and xenophobes edged into the political mainstream; great power competition made its return on the geopolitical stage.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2019
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Democrats’ politically correct messaging derides opponents as deplorable racists, sexists, bigots, xenophobes, homophobes, Islamophobes and nativists.
—Victor Davis Hanson, The Mercury News, 27 Apr. 2017
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