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xenophobic

adjective

  1. having or showing a dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˌzɛn.əˈfəʊ.bɪk/ / /ˌzi.nəˈfoʊ.bɪk/ / /ˌzɛn.əˈfoʊ.bɪk/

adj

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

  1. Exhibiting or characterised by xenophobia, a fear or hatred of strangers, foreigners, or extraterrestial 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

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

  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?