anti-foreign

adjective

an·​ti-for·​eign ˌan-tē-ˈfȯr-ən How to pronounce anti-foreign (audio)
-ˈfär-,
ˌan-tī-
: opposed to or hostile toward foreigners
anti-foreign sentiments
A few years after that, anti-Catholic and anti-foreign feelings merged in a nativist crusade called the Know-Nothing movement.Bernard A. Weisberger

Examples of anti-foreign in a Sentence

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Dutch Restrictions While across Europe anti-foreign sentiment keeps rising, limitations on foreign students are perhaps nowhere more striking than in the Netherlands, where a coalition supported by the far right has pushed a policy to restrict foreign students’ access to Dutch universities. Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 17 Aug. 2024 The Wall Street Journal reported last August that the company was under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission into whether its imports of monkeys violate anti-foreign bribery laws. Rachel Treisman, NPR, 4 June 2024 For Americans, the appeal of visiting China has dimmed under Mr. Xi, an authoritarian leader who has stoked anti-foreign sentiment. Vivian Wang, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023 Demilitarizing those areas now would mean surrendering the CCP’s solemn mission to make China whole again and, consequently, diminishing its ability to use anti-foreign nationalism as a source of legitimacy. Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023 This kind of nationalism is often a mixture of utopianism and anti-foreign sentiment, elements shared by the movement that birthed the Chinese Communist Party. Ian Buruma, Harper's Magazine, 11 Jan. 2022

Word History

First Known Use

1838, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of anti-foreign was in 1838

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“Anti-foreign.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-foreign. Accessed 11 Dec. 2024.

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