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"etymology_text": "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).",
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"ref": "1999 January 17, Maureen Dowd, “Liberties: Soft-Porn Nation”, in New York Times, retrieved 2017-07-17",
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"ref": "2010 April 8, Linda Barnard, “The Eclipse: Ghosts among the living”, in The Star, retrieved 2017-07-17",
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"ref": "2011 May 2, Rupert Cornwell, “America must end its 9/11 mindset”, in Independent, retrieved 2017-07-17",
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"ref": "2017 June 2, Dana Milbank, “Trump, the caricature of the ugly American, demeans us all”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2017-07-17",
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"ref": "2023 January 20, Dan Bilefsky, “American Expatriates in Paris Wish Emily Cooper Would Go Home”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
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"(idiomatic) An American government representative, tourist, or businessperson who, in dealing with people of other nations, is haughty, rude, meddlesome, chauvinistic, or jingoistic."
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