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anticivic

adj

Etymology

From anti- + civic.

  1. borrowed from cīvicus
  2. prefixed as anticivic — “anti + civic”

Definitions

  1. In opposition to citizenship.

  2. Against the welfare and best interests of citizens and their citizenship.

    • To summarize the findings, no schema (with the exception of one minor schema of alienation) expresses either anticivic or antidemocratic culture, ...
    • Under television's relentlessly negative portrayal of events, the civic culture of optimism, idealism, rationalism, and nationalism was gradually giving way to an anticivic culture of distrust, a sense of political inefficacy, ...
    • Milton suggests his republicanism by spurning the anticivic implications of Epicurean garden retirement.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA