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
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Duffy defended his side project for the Department of Transportation over the weekend, accusing critics of the five-part series -- which was filmed over the last seven months and is set to air on YouTube -- of being unpatriotic.
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Abc News, ABC News, 11 May 2026
With all that in consideration, Genre Allegory comes off as pretty unpatriotic.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 8 Apr. 2026
Indeed, in many ways, West’s performatively anti-white, unpatriotic, and cosmopolitan version of polyamory is the blue-state mirror image of tradwifery, which, in its various forms, can fetishize whiteness, nostalgic Americana, and (often Christian) nationalism.
—Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2026
Publicly, most of them stayed silent, concerned that questioning the White House’s claims about the existence of weapons of mass destruction would seem unpatriotic.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 12 Mar. 2026
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Abc News, ABC News, 11 May 2026
With all that in consideration, Genre Allegory comes off as pretty unpatriotic.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 8 Apr. 2026
Indeed, in many ways, West’s performatively anti-white, unpatriotic, and cosmopolitan version of polyamory is the blue-state mirror image of tradwifery, which, in its various forms, can fetishize whiteness, nostalgic Americana, and (often Christian) nationalism.
—Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2026
Publicly, most of them stayed silent, concerned that questioning the White House’s claims about the existence of weapons of mass destruction would seem unpatriotic.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 12 Mar. 2026
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“Unpatriotic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unpatriotic. Accessed 15 May. 2026.
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