How to Use antidemocratic in a Sentence

antidemocratic

adjective
  • Macron’s critics — and many on the street — see the move as antidemocratic.
    — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
  • There was something so antidemocratic, something so crude about that, that truly frightened me.
    — New York Times, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The antidemocratic and violent forces unleashed that day have not faded away.
    — Lawrence Norden, Foreign Affairs, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Finding a voice to counter that antidemocratic rhetoric is proving surprisingly hard, so far.
    — James Stavridis, Time, 12 July 2018
  • What does this antidemocratic rampage have to do with architecture?
    — John King, SFChronicle.com, 7 Jan. 2021
  • The European Union plays a perverse antidemocratic part in this saga.
    — Robert Kuttner, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Facing the prevailing antidemocratic winds of the present moment, that alone is cause for optimism.
    — Tom Ball, The New Republic, 1 July 2019
  • In Europe, there are early glimmers that the wave of antidemocratic populism may have crested.
    — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 28 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • That is why critics of gerrymandering are right to regard it as antidemocratic.
    — Craig Gilbert, jsonline.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The antidemocratic policy changes made in Texas and a handful of other states contribute to this slide.
    — Katie Scofield, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Power can be lawful in the abstract and antidemocratic in its application.
    — Stephanie A, The Conversation, 23 Feb. 2026
  • At first, the war stopped the protest movement in its tracks, allowing the government to pursue many of its antidemocratic plans with far less scrutiny.
    — Dahlia Scheindlin, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • And Trump's antidemocratic message is the one that has reverberated above all others.
    — NBC News, 7 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • In and of themselves, laws to monitor and prevent harmful foreign influence are not antidemocratic.
    — Maxim Krupskiy, Foreign Affairs, 29 Aug. 2024
  • By partly neutralizing criticism that its leaders are elitist or antidemocratic, the right has been able to focus on issues that play to its strengths.
    — Brian Winter, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
  • 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 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
  • The first to learn about the antidemocratic effects of the new monopolization and its centrality to the neoliberal project.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 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
  • Some analysts warn that Republicans’ efforts to make heavy use of online spaces where antidemocratic or antigay messages flourish could turn their rhetoric into a race to the bottom.
    — Jess Bidgood, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023
  • This does not mean that efforts to delegitimize the results of the election—or the possibility that antidemocratic forces may try to mount a sustained attack on the electoral system—should be taken lightly.
    — Jenna Bednar, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • But early this year, Britons believed by 47 percent to 39 percent that a second referendum was antidemocratic.
    — Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019

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