1
: a member of a German fascist party controlling Germany from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler
2
often nazi
a
: one who espouses the beliefs and policies of the German Nazis : fascist
b
: one who is likened to a German Nazi : a harshly domineering, dictatorial, or intolerant person
a grammar nazi
nazi
adjective
often Nazi
Examples of Nazi in a Sentence
a gang of racist Nazis
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The material includes Nazi iconography, extreme misogyny and racist sentiments about Black people and other minority groups, law enforcement officials said.
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Tom Winter, NBC news, 19 May 2026
This repackages long-standing Nazi and Soviet propaganda about Jews based on historical antisemitic tropes.
—Nathalie Japkowicz, The Conversation, 18 May 2026
Patterson, born in New York City, was the daughter of a Black poet father and a German Jewish artist mother whose brother, a socialist in the French Resistance, had fought and then fled the Nazis.
—Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
His past films have covered the Hungarian Uprising, the fraught lead-up to WWI and, in 2015’s excruciating Son of Saul, life and death in a Nazi concentration camp.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2026
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Tom Winter, NBC news, 19 May 2026
This repackages long-standing Nazi and Soviet propaganda about Jews based on historical antisemitic tropes.
—Nathalie Japkowicz, The Conversation, 18 May 2026
Patterson, born in New York City, was the daughter of a Black poet father and a German Jewish artist mother whose brother, a socialist in the French Resistance, had fought and then fled the Nazis.
—Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
His past films have covered the Hungarian Uprising, the fraught lead-up to WWI and, in 2015’s excruciating Son of Saul, life and death in a Nazi concentration camp.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2026
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“Nazi.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Nazi. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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