Phrase guide
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Sound
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noun
An American government representative, tourist, or businessperson who, in dealing with people of other nations, is haughty, rude, meddlesome, chauvinistic, or jingoistic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic
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noun
Alternative form of ugly American.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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History
From the novel The Ugly American (1958) by William Lederer and Eugene Burdick (though the character in the novel is only physically ugly and otherwise morally upright).
