hyphenated
Speech parts
1. hyphenated - Adjective
2. hyphenated - Verb
Meaning
United by hyphens; hyphened; as, a hyphenated or hyphened word.
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Examples
In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
For an American citizen to vote as a German-American, an Irish-American, or an English-American, is to be a traitor to American institutions; and those hyphenated Americans who terrorize American politicians by threats of the foreign vote are engaged in treason to the American Republic.
We were never hyphenated as Arab-Americans. We were American, and I have always rejected the hyphen and I believe all assimilated immigrants should not be designated ethnically. Or separated, of course, by race, or creed either. These are trends that ever try to divide us as a people.
You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.
Berthoff (1962), 164 After his use of hyphenated compounds in Pierre, Melville's writing gives Berthoff the impression of becoming less exploratory and less provocative in his choices of words and phrases.
All incorrectly hyphenated by yours truly.