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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anti-Semitic

Anti-Semitism \An`ti-Sem"i*tism\, n. Opposition to, or hatred of, Semites, esp. Jews. The word is sometimes also applied to acts motivated by or evincing antisemitism. -- An`ti-Sem"ite, n. -- An`ti-Sem*it"ic, a.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
anti-Semitic

1881, see anti-Semitism.

WordNet
anti-semitic
  1. adj. relating to or characterized by anti-Semitism; hating Jews

  2. discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion [syn: racist, antiblack, anti-Semite(a)]

Usage examples of "anti-semitic".

Rights Party, a far-right anti-black, anti-Semitic group with two hundred hard-core members, wired Governor Barnett with the claim that thousands of armed volunteers were ready to move when needed.

Unlike its predecessor of the 1870s in the South, this short-lived but widespread movement was based chiefly in the Midwest and was devoted above all to anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic and antimodernist sentiment, with Negrophobia present but of lesser importance.

Great Wagner comes and, lifting them aloft above the clouds, transports them to the mighty halls of old Walhalla in Ride of Walkyries taking this poisonous anti-Semitic little woman with him.

Jackson was believed to be too close to Black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan, who was known for anti-Semitic remarks.

Detachments of cavalry move slowly through Little Bohemia to discourage anti-Semitic gangs who have already tried to burn the Great Synagogue.

I opened the newspaper first, found it to be The White Christian Minuteman, a scabrous, illiterate, anti-Semitic, anti-Negro, anti-Catholic hate sheet published by the Reverend Doctor Lionel J.

Anti-Semitic, the Archontics identify the Devil with Sabaoth, the god of the Jews, who lives in the seventh heaven.