Lusophobic

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Luso- +‎ -phobic

Adjective[edit]

Lusophobic (not comparable)

  1. showing Lusophobia.
    • 2002, Malcolm Roy Jack, Sintra: A Glorious Eden, Carcanet Press, page 177:
      In his letters home, his tone is quite positive but when Childe Harold's Pilgrimage appeared, three years later, in 1812, there is a distinctly Lusophobic tenor in what he writes.
    • 2008, Jeffrey C. Mosher, Political Struggle, Ideology, and State Building: Pernambuco and the Construction of Brazil, 1817-1850, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 185:
      The challenge to classic liberal economic principles posed by their program of Lusophobic, nationalistic development and their promotion of Political Parties, Popular Mobilization, and their promotion of decentralized, democratic liberalism marked clear ideological and programmatic differences from the conservatives.
    • 2010, Keith Sandiford, Theorizing a Colonial Caribbean-Atlantic Imaginary: Sugar and Obeah, Routledge, →ISBN:
      Another surrounds certain Lusophobic mentalities which permeate Lewis' imagination of the shipwreck in The Isle of Devils. These are then refracted in Ligon's Lusophobic depiction of Mendes de Sousa, the villain of oceanic and terrestrial intrigues,