unCanadian

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ Canadian.

Adjective

unCanadian (comparative more unCanadian, superlative most unCanadian)

1. Not Canadian; contrary to or inconsistent with Canada or Canadian values and traditions.
   • 1974, Herschel Hardin, A Nation Unaware: The Canadian Economic Culture, J. J. Douglas, page 321:

     British Columbia as a rule has been treated by the culture of Central Canada as somehow exotic and unCanadian, and Alberta as a parochial outback.

   • 2003, Donna Bailey Nurse, What's a Black Critic To Do?: Interviews, Profiles and Reviews of Black Writers, Insomniac Press, →ISBN, page 24:

     Tonight he makes the most unCanadian of admissions: he feels his success is deserved.

   • 2010, Marci McDonald, The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada, Random House Canada, →ISBN, page 89:

     "Under previous governments a lot of us were branded as bogeymen, as somehow unCanadian for our beliefs," Rogusky told a reporter.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:unCanadian.