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Anglophobia

American  
[ang-gluh-foh-bee-uh] / ˌæŋ gləˈfoʊ bi ə /

noun

  1. an aversion or hostility to, disdain for, or fear of England or anything English.


Other Word Forms

  • Anglophobiac adjective
  • Anglophobic adjective

Etymology

Origin of Anglophobia

An Americanism dating back to 1785–95; Anglo- + -phobia

Example Sentences

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The curious thing about that is that they’ve played five Europa League games against English clubs and won three of them, so it seems they suffer from entirely competition-specific Anglophobia.

From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2021

But it was precisely that sense of security which steered him away from name-calling Anglophobia or from joining the militant end of Irish Republicanism.

From Economist • Sep. 29, 2016

Last week Quincy Howe, his Anglophobia somewhat chastened since France and Chamberlain fell, sped his mercurial mind over the whole field of war news.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a series of interlocking biographical sketches�marked by Anglophobia and a gift for rhetoric�Parrington, in Main Currents in American Thought, reconstructed the U.S. cultural evolution.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jefferson’s Anglophobia was more virulent in part because it was more theoretical, a moral conclusion that followed naturally from the moralistic categories he carried around in his head.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis