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antirights

antirights adjective: opposing somebody's rights.

Adjective

antirights (comparative more antirights, superlative most antirights)

  1. Opposing somebody's rights.
    • Callaway shares Maddox's intransigent opposition to expanded Negro rights, but he cannot equal the vivid antirights image that Maddox acquired when he chased Negroes from his Atlanta restaurant at gunpoint […]1966, Congressional quarterly weekly report (volume 24, part 4, page 8)

Forms of antirights

comparativemore antirights
superlativemost antirights

Origin of antirights

From anti- + rights.

Questions about antirights

What does antirights mean?
Antirights means opposing somebody's rights.
What part of speech is antirights?
Antirights is an adjective.

Words near antirights in the dictionary

  1. antirickets
  2. antirickettsial
  3. antirickettsials
  4. antirightist
  5. antirightists
  6. antirights
  7. Antirio
  8. Antirion
  9. antiriot
  10. antiripening
  11. antirise

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