antiforeign

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antiforeign

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From anti- + foreign.

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  1. Opposed to foreigners or to what is foreign. Taken as a whole, however, the riots were anti-foreign, not anti-official. This was dramatically true in the Wu-hsüeh riot of June 5, where two foreigners were killed by an angry mob,⁴⁹ and the I-ch’ang riot of September 2, where responsible officials failed to take action and the collusion of impor

    Similar: xenophobic

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adj opposed to foreigners or to what is foreign

Portuguêsantiestrangeiro

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@misc{antiforeign_2026,
  title = {antiforeign},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/antiforeign},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}