The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anti-American \An`ti-A*mer"i*can\, a.
Opposed to the Americans, their aims, or interests, or to the
genius of American institutions.
--Marshall.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also antiamerican, 1788 (n.), in reference to British parliamentary policies, from anti- + American. As an adjective by 1838. Related: Anti-Americanism "opposition to what is distinctly American," 1844.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Opposing America. 2 Opposing American values.
WordNet
adj. opposed to the United States and its policies [ant: pro-American]
Usage examples of "anti-american".
Saigon told of progressive crumbling, riots, corruption, anti-American sentiment, neutralist movement by the Buddhists.
Denounced by the Communists as a useless prolonging of the civil war, this aid was used to generate a wave of anti-American feeling in the weary populace.
If they found these new States fiercely anti-American and extremely unprogressive, they would experience that aggravation of their difficulties with which our statesmen have had to deal.
I have already attempted to bring the problem home to an American by suggesting that the Dutch of New York had trekked west and founded an anti-American and highly unprogressive State.
During the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, there was anti-American rioting in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia that caused considerable damage to many American businesses.
If Washington refuses to project its diplomatic and military power to contain the Malaysian-produced Islamic threat in Asia, there is a danger that the United States and Australia will soon face anti-American and anti-Israeli blocs, Rubenstein insisted.
The Carter administration in 1977, responding to anti-American protests in Panama, decided to renegotiate the treaty.
The Carter administration later accepted him into the country, presumably for medical treatment, and the anti-American feelings of the revolutionaries reached a high point.
Sentimentally, the majority of people in this world would far rather be in a tie-up with Russia than with America, and it is possible to imagine situations in which the popular cause would become the anti-American cause.
Their message has focused on anti-American and anticapitalist tenets, rather than the anarchistic overthrow of the government, which has found a degree of support within a fragment of the population's youth.
In the middle class, the people who are not anti-American are the declassed technician type (people like radio engineers) and the younger intelligentsia.
A college football stadium on the Fourth of July in 1970 is not the smartest place to carry anti-American signs and shout Maoist slogans, and this noisy group had naturally attracted an adversary force of right-wing counterparts.
Others less inclined to turn the other cheek forthrightly assign the blame to the Vietnamese Communists alone, denouncing the anti-American extremists who labor to detect lingering ambiguities.