antigypsy

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adjective

Opposing or countering gypsies; practicing or exhibiting antigypsyism.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

adjectiveantigypsy (comparative more antigypsy, superlative most antigypsy)

comparative more antigypsy · superlative most antigypsy

  1. Opposing or countering gypsies; practicing or exhibiting antigypsyism.

    There is also evidence of numerous local antigypsy campaigns by police, often acting on their own initiative and not in response to complaints or orders from above.

    2004, Herman Roodenburg, Social Control in Europe: 1500-1800, page 216
    1 more example

    This violently antigypsy diatribe, which brings together all the racial and ethnic stereotypes held in sixteenth-century Spain, was duly withdrawn from the elementary school reader...

    2000, Carroll B. Johnson, Cervantes and the material world, page 93

Origin

Translations

Portuguese anticiganos, anticigano
  • anticiganosopposing or countering gypsies
  • anticiganoopposing or countering gypsies
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