Vocabulary
Xenophobic
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
having or showing a dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries.
Urdu meaning
غیر گریز، غیر ملکیوں سے نفرت
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- It is Israel`s xenophobic attitude that has sparked two intifadas in the past, as well the ongoing genocide and it is the major obstruction to peace in the Middle East.
- A race to the bottom: The most likely future is an extension of the present, whereby Hindutva, (militant) Islamism and other variants of xenophobic nationalism take hold of ever greater segments of youth.
- Regrettably, in its present xenophobic form, Europe is far from the haven of human rights it claims to be.
- There are many social media accounts active on platforms like X which have a substantial global reach and whose only job, it seems, is to shape public opinion with xenophobic and Islamophobic messaging.
- We all live in political environments dominated by an increasingly xenophobic right wing, undergirded by entrenched military-industrial-media establishments.
Synonyms
racist, racialist, ethnocentric, ethnocentrist; nationalist, nationalistic, jingoistic
Curator example
“an unadventurous and xenophobic nation”
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