a pejorative way of describing something that violates U.S. civil liberties, implies treason
Some people though that the laws that would allow the goverment access to phone calls were Un-American.
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Doing something that isn't "justified", or without reason.
RK's actions to disallow a certain smiley on his boards because of his personal opinions is Un-American.
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Anything done with thought or reason.
Man 1 - Hey how about we come up with a reason to go to war.
Man 2 - Yeah that's cool, I love being Un-American.
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contrary to values (often conservative) that the speaker purports to be shared by the people of the United States of America.
We should take all those un-american war protestors and drop them out of an airplane onto Saddam Hussein's palace.
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An implied synonym for "treason"
John Doe is un-american
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pointless restrictions of freedom are un-american
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Things that go against how Americans live, especially historically.
ie professionalism is being fake and America hates liars. Paperwork is anti-fighting and Americans love fighting and watching it. Cussing is freedom of speech and there's lots of sailors in america. Feelings tend to be absent of reason and logic and in america we believe in evidence not defense.
So some un-American immigrant was offended today that i called him a little communist propaganda machine. Response: Good to to hear you're taking the offensive, all these "poor me's" on the defense are un-American.