: opposed to or hostile toward British people, policies, or culture
anti-British sentiments
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Their wild journey features drugs, anti-British rap tunes and feuding with extremist groups and the cops, though the trio's use of the country's mother tongue fuels a youth movement against the establishment trying to tamp down this indigenous language.
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Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2024
Against a roiling political backdrop — the women’s suffrage movement is growing, as is anti-British sentiment — Kaveri and Bhargavi come to a deeper understanding of each other.
—Sarah Weinman, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2024
Against a roiling political backdrop — the women’s suffrage movement is growing, as is anti-British sentiment — Kaveri and Bhargavi come to a deeper understanding of each other.
—Sarah Weinman, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
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“Anti-British.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-British. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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