a. [UN-1 7.] Not in consonance with American characteristics.
Similarly, in recent use (early 20th c.), un-Americanism, un-American-looking.
1818. M. Birkbeck, Notes Amer., 28. Ninety marble capitals have been imported at vast cost from Italy, to crown the columns of the Capitol and shew how un-American is the whole plan.
1894. Daily News, 30 April, 5/3. However it came about, it is un-American and should be repudiated by the people.
1897. H. C. Potter, The Significance of the American Cathedral, in Scholar & State, etc., 332. There are those who will still dismiss the cathedral with the one sweeping and final condemnation that it is ‘un-American.’
1902. Eliz. Banks, Newspaper Girl, 55. She refused on the ground that it was both unbecoming and un-American.
1917. T. Roosevelt, Lett., 10 Jan. Everything is un-American that tends either to government by a plutocracy or government by a mob. To divide alone the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American.
