anticivic

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adjective

In opposition to citizenship.

Opposite
pro-civic
Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectiveanticivic (comparative more anticivic, superlative most anticivic)

comparative more anticivic · superlative most anticivic

  1. In opposition to citizenship.
  2. Against the welfare and best interests of citizens and their citizenship.

    Milton suggests his republicanism by spurning the anticivic implications of Epicurean garden retirement.

    2002, Joshua Scodel, Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature
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    To summarize the findings, no schema (with the exception of one minor schema of alienation) expresses either anticivic or antidemocratic culture, ...

    1997, Douglas P. Fry, Kaj Björkqvist, Cultural Variation in Conflict Resolution: Alternatives to Violence

    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, ...

    2002, Harold L. Wilensky, Rich Democracies: Political Economy, Public Policy and Performance

Synonyms & antonyms

Opposite
pro-civic

Origin

Translations

Portuguese anticívico
  • anticívicoagainst the welfare of citizens
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