How to Use un-American in a Sentence

un-American

adjective

• The time to unite against these dangerous, un-American tactics is now.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 22 Oct. 2024
• 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
• As far as parroting Putin: To the hawks in think tanks and the media, any talk that doesn't involve escalating (or at the very least, maintaining) war is un-American.
  — Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
• Either way, funding hydrogen in red states and not blue ones would be vindictive and un-American.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2025
• The crowd that cheered Trump’s un-American vision of America showed that this cruel turn toward a desire to crush civil rights is here to stay, whether as rule of law or lurking just beneath the surface.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2024
• Add the freshness level was clearly un-American with its absence of preservatives.
  — Lilian Raji, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
• 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
• What Trump and Hegseth are doing is un-American, unpatriotic.
  — Mark Joseph, Newsweek, 24 Feb. 2025
• His disrespect for these American heroes is shameful and un-American.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 18 Mar. 2025
• The arbitrary and dismissive approach to employees and grantees is frankly un-American and unacceptable.
  — Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 5 Apr. 2025
• 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
• When Republican state representative Laurel Libby brought this case to light, her colleagues voted to censure her, overstepping their bounds in the most un-American way possible.
  — Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
• The denigration of immigrants in public discourse over time contributed to creating a fertile ground where these un-American restrictions could flourish.
  — Agustina Vergara Cid, Oc Register, 30 Mar. 2025
• And what would really blow their un-American minds is that, despite America’s not undeserved reputation for rampant materialism, none of this is about money.
  — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 18 July 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
• An unacceptable, unconscionable, and un-American spending bill.
  — NBC News, 16 Mar. 2025
• The conservative justices’ greed, conflicts of interest, dishonesty and deeply un-American interpretation of presidential power have led us to this moment.
  — Robin Abcarian, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2024
• And the solution — regulating industry — seemed downright un-American.
  — Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
• His sense of American exceptionalism separates the United States from an intrinsically un-American outside world.
  — Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
• Targeting children and separating families is cruel and un-American.
  — Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
• Political violence is un-American and is never acceptable—never.
  — Stephanie Murray, The Arizona Republic, 13 July 2024
• Political violence is un-American and is never acceptable — never.
  — Jessica Boehm, Axios, 16 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