unpatriotic

adjective

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as in disloyal

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Recent Examples of unpatriotic 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 This administration’s manipulation of the Justice Department is an unpatriotic betrayal of our country and the rule of law. — Barbara McQuade, Twin Cities, 19 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for unpatriotic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpatriotic
  1. disloyal
  2. unfaithful
  3. perfidious
  4. faithless
  5. treacherous
  6. disaffected
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  • Fans were quick to take to the comments of Washington’s post, with many joking that the actress was being disloyal to her other onscreen Scandal love interest, Fitzgerald Grant, played by Tony Goldwyn.
    — Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 16 July 2026
  • What This Moment Is Actually About Gen Zers aren't disloyal, lazy or unreasonable for wanting job security.
    — Vince Carrabba, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
Definition of disloyal
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  • After so many years as the good guy, Klein is leaning into his dark side, taking on roles like the big bad Cicada on CW’s The Flash, and as JoAnna Garcia Swisher’s unfaithful ex-husband on the Netflix series Sweet Magnolias.
    — Gwen Ihnat, Entertainment Weekly, 9 July 2026
  • Nyong’o also plays Clytemnestra, the unfaithful wife of Agamemnon, whom Clytemnestra and her lover, Aegisthus, murder.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 July 2026
Definition of unfaithful
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  • Logan Marshall-Green as Melanthius Melanthius is a perfidious goatherd who sides with Antinous.
    — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 18 July 2026
  • This is perhaps the most perfidious practice of this sort of politics.
    — David M. Drucker, Twin Cities, 3 June 2026
Definition of perfidious
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  • The French had said the British were faithless.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
  • Consumed by rage and betrayal, Eleanor is driven to take a bloody, supernatural revenge upon her faithless husband.
    — Robert Lang, Deadline, 27 Dec. 2025
Definition of faithless
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  • If the institutions managing climate risk are instruments of a cosmic power consolidating control over humanity, the question of whether a carbon price is well-designed becomes not just wrong but spiritually treacherous.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 18 July 2026
  • The only thing more treacherous than his journey home might be tackling a ranking of Nolan's filmography.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 17 July 2026
Definition of treacherous
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  • Jack Nicholson stars as a disaffected journalist who assumes the identity of a dead man in an attempt to start over, only to find that his new life is even more complicated than his own.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
  • Fight Club starred Norton as an unnamed man who can't sleep and has become disaffected and lost.
    — Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026
Definition of disaffected

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