anticivic
- adjective
- /ˌæn.tɪˈsɪ.vɪk/
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anticívico
- The anticivic actions of the group led to protests from local residents who felt ignored.
- anticivic orthodoxy
Examples
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This anticivic orthodoxy is now under siege.
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As the consequences of the anticivic position began to become evident, a few intellectuals on the left courageously broke ranks to join the assault.
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The anticivic orthodoxy has thus been anything but antipolitical.
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Those espousing this orthodoxy rarely, of course, call it an anticivic idea.
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Nevertheless, barring some unforeseen event, the anticivic orthodoxy will eventually collapse under the combined assault of the Left and Right.
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To the extent that there has been a withdrawal from the civic in modern America, it has been encouraged far more by government school systems, where the anticivic orthodoxy has been strongest, than by nongovernment systems.
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For the moment, therefore, partisans of the anticivic orthodoxy in America continue to fight on, blithely unaware that a portion of their general staff has deserted the cause.
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Despite what the label suggests, multiculturalism ultimately embraces a unitary, though anticivic, view of education—not a pluralistic one.
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Substantial as these apprehensions about a renewal of civic education may be, there is nonetheless an emerging consensus that it would be a mistake to allow any incidental reservations to undermine the struggle against the anticivic orthodoxy.
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It assumes, apparently without much consideration, that the only way to defeat the anticivic orthodoxy is to replace it with an idea—meaning a single plan or program of study or curricula—of what civic education should be.
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Synonyms
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Behaving in ways that harm other people or public property
Antonyms
How Civic
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Etymology
The word anticivic comes from the parts anti-, meaning 'against', and civic, from a word for 'citizen' or 'city' like the English word citizen. So, anticivic describes actions that go 'against' the community or that harm public life.