xenophobic – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of xenophobic

Adjective: xenophobic

Comparison Forms

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Perifrastic

Comparativemore xenophobic
Superlativemost xenophobic

Sample Sentences

  • Residents of Plettenberg Bay this week launched violent xenophobic attacks on foreign Africans living in informal settlements, beating them and ransacking their houses [2006 May 13, Weekend Argus:]
  • 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. [2019 May 17, “The Guardian view on the Venice Biennale’s migrant boat: pushing the limits of art”, in The Guardian:]
  • Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson, who often spreads xenophobic arguments, has ardently embraced the charge that Democrats are “trying to replace the current electorate – the voters now casting ballots – with new people, more obedient voters from the Third World.” [2021 April 23, Ronald Brownstein, “The racist ‘replacement theory’ has it all backward”, in CNN:]

Etymology

From xeno- + -phobic, from Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “foreign, strange”) + φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).

Verbs referencing "xenophobic"

Finnish Adjectives ksenofobinen.