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xenophobic

,zenәj'fәjbik,,zi:-5 senses · 185 ms
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adj/ˌzɛn.əˈfəʊ.bɪk//ˌzi.nəˈfoʊ.bɪk//ˌzɛn.əˈfoʊ.bɪk/
  1. 1

    Exhibiting or characterised by xenophobia, a fear or hatred of strangers, foreigners, or extraterrestrial life.

    • Residents of Plettenberg Bay this week launched violent xenophobic attacks on foreign Africans living in informal settlements, beating them and ransacking their houses
    • It has not yet promised much in the way of serious debate about the migrant crisis or the EU’s failure to tackle it in a humane and coordinated manner, in the context of the Italian government’s increasingly xenophobic policies.
noun/ˌzɛn.əˈfəʊ.bɪk//ˌzi.nəˈfoʊ.bɪk//ˌzɛn.əˈfoʊ.bɪk/
  1. 1

    A xenophobe.

    • So Buzz Bissinger sees fit that we give up on the ideal of Olympism and give in to xenophobics, terrorists, drug abusers, profiteers and human rights abusers?

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