Complete Definition of "anticivic"

English

Adjective
en-adj

  1. In opposition to citizenship.
  2. Against the welfare and best interests of citizens and their citizenship.

1997: Douglas P. Fry, Kaj Björkqvist, Cultural Variation in Conflict Resolution: Alternatives to Violence
:To summarize the findings, no schema (with the exception of one minor schema of alienation) expresses either anticivic or antidemocratic culture, ...
2002: Harold L. Wilensky, Rich Democracies: Political Economy, Public Policy and Performance
:Under television's relentlessly negative portrayal of events, the civic culture of optimism, idealism, rationalism, and nationalism was gradually giving way to an anticivic culture of distrust, a sense of political inefficacy, ...
2002: Joshua Scodel, Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature
:''Milton suggests his republicanism by spurning the anticivic implications of Epicurean garden retirement.'

Antonyms
pro-civic

References
The term anticivic can be found in the following references:
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