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English
Etymology
xeno- + -phobic, from Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “foreign, strange”) + φόβος (phóbos, “fear”)
Adjective
xenophobic (comparative more xenophobic, superlative most xenophobic)
- Exhibiting or characterised by xenophobia, a fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners.
- Synonyms: xenophobous; see also Thesaurus:xenophobic
2006 May 13, Weekend Argus:Residents of Plettenberg Bay this week launched violent xenophobic attacks on foreign Africans living in informal settlements, beating them and ransacking their houses
2019 May 17, “The Guardian view on the Venice Biennale’s migrant boat: pushing the limits of art”, in The Guardian:It has not yet promised much in the way of serious debate about the migrant crisis or the EU’s failure to tackle it in a humane and coordinated manner, in the context of the Italian government’s increasingly xenophobic policies.
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exhibiting or characterised by xenophobia
Noun
xenophobic (plural xenophobics)
- A xenophobe.
2008 April 16, Martin J. Brown, “Don’t Give Up on the Games, or Olympic Ideals”, in New York Times:So Buzz Bissinger sees fit that we give up on the ideal of Olympism and give in to xenophobics, terrorists, drug abusers, profiteers and human rights abusers?
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