anticivic

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English

Etymology

anti- +‎ civic

Adjective

anticivic (comparative more anticivic, superlative most anticivic)

  1. In opposition to citizenship.
  2. Against the welfare and best interests of citizens and their citizenship.
    • 1997, Douglas P. Fry, Kaj Björkqvist, Cultural Variation in Conflict Resolution: Alternatives to Violence:
      To summarize the findings, no schema (with the exception of one minor schema of alienation) expresses either anticivic or antidemocratic culture, ...
    • 2002, Harold L. Wilensky, Rich Democracies: Political Economy, Public Policy and Performance:
      Under television's relentlessly negative portrayal of events, the civic culture of optimism, idealism, rationalism, and nationalism was gradually giving way to an anticivic culture of distrust, a sense of political inefficacy, ...
    • 2002, Joshua Scodel, Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature:
      Milton suggests his republicanism by spurning the anticivic implications of Epicurean garden retirement.

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