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anti-German

Adjective

Meaning

anti-German

Against Germans or Germany.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Mr. Lloyd George will not resign on anything anti-German. He is anti-German, and the trust which the reasonable Peace people place in him is altogether misplaced. Ramsay MacDonald

The only reason from beginning to end is that our foreign office is anti-German and that the Admiralty was anxious to seize any opportunity for using the Navy in battle practice. ... Never did we arm our people and ask them to give us their lives for less good cause than this. Ramsay MacDonald

Anti-German articles, such as the Daily Express calling for an " Anti-Nazi boycott ", in response to German antisemitism were published prior to Adolf Hitler's rise, as well. Source: Internet

Ensor, p. 194. The Frankfurter Zeitung was outspoken in its condemnation of Alexandra and her sister, the Dowager Empress of Russia, saying that the pair were "the centre of the international anti-German conspiracy". Source: Internet

More important, though, was a deeper fragility: although many ordinary Russians joined anti-German demonstrations in the first few weeks of the war, the most widespread reaction appears to have been skepticism and fatalism. Source: Internet

Sheet music (1917) for one of the songs from Home Again; from left: Harpo, Gummo, Chico, Groucho During World War I, anti-German sentiments were common, and the family tried to conceal its German origin. Source: Internet

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