unpatriotic

adjective

un·​pa·​tri·​ot·​ic ˌən-ˌpā-trē-ˈä-tik 

 chiefly British  -ˌpa-

: not feeling or showing love for or devotion to one's country : not patriotic

protesters accused of being unpatriotic

a time when opposition to the war was considered unpatriotic

unpatriotically

ˌən-ˌpā-trē-ˈä-ti-k(ə-)lē 

 chiefly British  -ˌpa-

adverb

Examples of unpatriotic in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Traveled to London at the behest of Margot Asquith, wife of the prime minister where the designer presented his collection at a tea at 10 Downing Street, which was deemed unpatriotic and unfair to British trade. —Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 7 July 2025

For these unpatriotic 'entertainers,' this was just a CORRUPT & UNLAWFUL way to capitalize on a broken system. —Jordan King shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025

Team Trump’s erratic game of Russian roulette over tariffs, vaccines and Ukraine are only the most dangerous examples of their unpatriotic incompetence. —Mark Green, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2025

Arguing that the Smithsonian somehow misleads people, somehow is unpatriotic, somehow is saying things that are not true. —Elizabeth Blair, NPR, 28 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1758, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for unpatriotic

• antibiotic
• antipsychotic
• antithrombotic
• epizootic
• homoerotic
• psychoneurotic
• xenobiotic
• abiotic
• aeronautic
• apoptotic
• asymptotic
• cyanotic