How to Use antidemocratic in a Sentence

antidemocratic

adjective
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  • In and of themselves, laws to monitor and prevent harmful foreign influence are not antidemocratic.
    — Maxim Krupskiy, Foreign Affairs, 29 Aug. 2024
  • Macron’s critics — and many on the street — see the move as antidemocratic.
    — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
  • This latest threat is one more warning sign: The GOP is on the path to become an antidemocratic party.
    — Jill Filipovic, CNN, 11 Jan. 2022
  • The European Union plays a perverse antidemocratic part in this saga.
    — Robert Kuttner, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Moreover, websites on the far left and far right often echo the antidemocratic themes promoted by the Kremlin.
    — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 2 July 2017
  • That has helped to fuel populist parties on both the right and the left, some of which are profoundly antidemocratic and xenophobic.
    — Margaret MacMillan, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2018
  • In Europe, there are early glimmers that the wave of antidemocratic populism may have crested.
    — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The antidemocratic and violent forces unleashed that day have not faded away.
    — Lawrence Norden, Foreign Affairs, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Facing the prevailing antidemocratic winds of the present moment, that alone is cause for optimism.
    — Tom Ball, The New Republic, 1 July 2019
  • There was something so antidemocratic, something so crude about that, that truly frightened me.
    — New York Times, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Only the antidemocratic structure of the U.S. Senate and electoral college can keep the shaky values of minority rule in place.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Still, while Brazil’s institutions held in the face of antidemocratic onslaught, several red flags have been raised.
    — Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The decision by this court in Trump v. United States will go down in history as both dangerous and antidemocratic.
    — Washington Post, 8 July 2024
  • And as long as much of the Republican Party keeps walking down its current antidemocratic path, the same will be true of subsequent elections as well.
    — Jill Filipovic, CNN, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Still, the lawsuit still had broader implications for state-control of elections across the US and marks a blow for antidemocratic efforts to overturn free and fair elections.
    — Scott Nover, Quartz, 27 June 2023
  • The constitution has been amended more than 50 times and stripped of most of the antidemocratic measures, according to law professors.
    — Ryan Dube, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2020
  • Finding a voice to counter that antidemocratic rhetoric is proving surprisingly hard, so far.
    — James Stavridis, Time, 12 July 2018
  • Harris has been made aware of López Obrador’s antidemocratic tendencies.
    — Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2021
  • If the court’s legal reasoning is correct, obeying the rule of law produces an antidemocratic result.
    — Charlie Savage, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • So which side of the Roe argument is really antidemocratic?
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 May 2022
  • Without Trump on the ballot in 2024, Democrats face a fraught task retaining the presidency because of the antidemocratic Electoral College.
    — George Tyler, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2021
  • But they are motivated by a pathology that is deeply antidemocratic and concerning to anyone who cares about the future of this country.
    — Claudia Dreifus, The New York Review of Books, 1 June 2021
  • And Trump's antidemocratic message is the one that has reverberated above all others.
    — NBC News, 7 Nov. 2020
  • For Snyder, the malign influence of Russia’s antidemocratic turn does not end in Eastern Europe.
    — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
  • The census’s democratic ideal of counting everyone has always been tempered by the deeply ingrained antidemocratic belief that some of us should count for less.
    — Jeremy Miller, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The fear now is that autocrats will be able to directly reference Trump's antidemocratic rhetoric to justify their own actions.
    — NBC News, 7 Nov. 2020
  • What does this antidemocratic rampage have to do with architecture?
    — John King, SFChronicle.com, 7 Jan. 2021
  • Brazil’s Supreme Court has drastically expanded its power to counter the antidemocratic stances of Mr. Bolsonaro and his supporters.
    — André Spigariol, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2022
  • To no one's surprise, the South wanted to reframe the war in a manner that was sympathetic to the antidemocratic Confederacy, laying the foundation for the enduring Lost Cause myth.
    — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Instead, antidemocratic rhetoric increased again after the attack on the U.S. Capitol and continued at high levels thereafter.
    — Christopher Miller, The Conversation, 8 Aug. 2024

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