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un-American

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1. un-American - Adjective

2. un-American - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

considered contrary to the best interests of the United States

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1950s main A production scene from the 1950 Hollywood film Julius Caesar starring Charlton Heston The House Un-American Activities Committee investigated Hollywood in the early 1950s. Source: Internet

All our hand-wringing about this plot being un-American and destructive to our democracy is sadly irrelevant — not just to the preposterous Giuliani and the equally preposterous Trump but to the entire Republican Party. Source: Internet

But President Donald J. Trump has been openly hostile to black and brown people he could paint as "other" -- dangerous, lazy, lawless, un-American. Source: Internet

He discredited legitimate efforts to counter Soviet subversion of American institutions. citation HUAC and SACB McCarthy's hearings are often incorrectly conflated with the hearings of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC). Source: Internet

HUAC was a House committee, and as such had no formal connection with McCarthy, who served in the Senate, although the existence of the House Un-American Activities Committee thrived in part as a result of McCarthy's activities. Source: Internet

Biographer Joseph McBride argues that Capra's disillusionment was more related to the negative effect that the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) had on the film industry in general. Source: Internet

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