anti-consumer

adjective

an·​ti-con·​sum·​er ˌan-tē-kən-ˈsü-mər  ˌan-tī- 

: not favorable to consumers : improperly favoring the interests of businesses over the interests of consumers

anti-consumer practices

Examples of anti-consumer in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

However, the article argues Google's services are popular due to their superiority, and forcing Google to promote inferior third-party options would be anti-consumer and self-harming. — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026

The Wall Street Journal, Fox, and the New York Post have steadily aired accusations of anticompetitive, anti-consumer tactics. — Lachlan Cartwright, Vanity Fair, 5 May 2026

Yet the subject of AI draws a fierce social media backlash, as both gamers and some developers decry the use of such tools as inauthentic and anti-consumer. — Cecilia Hult, Fortune, 22 July 2025

This is a critical first step to scrapping burdensome, anti-consumer regulations. — Steve Pociask, Boston Herald, 12 July 2025

State-level protections, however, haven’t prevented cable and satellite TV companies from pushing a menu of anti-consumer policies nationally. — Dell Cameron, WIRED, 25 Apr. 2024

But just as this goal is now within reach, the FCC is pumping the brakes with this entirely counterproductive, unnecessary, and anti-consumer regulatory distraction. — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 3 Apr. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1936, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for anti-consumer

• antitumor
• pseudotumor
• boomer
• humor
• humour
• plumer
• rumor
• rumour
• tumor
• tumour
• consumer
• perfumer