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unpatriotic

adjective

Definition of unpatrioticnext
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
Adjective
  • Business leaders keep asking why young workers seem disloyal, disengaged, quick to walk.
    — Lori Janke, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Netanyahu is not on record as making that remark, but the slogan reflects a broader narrative promoted by Iranian hardliners, portraying women who do not wear the hijab as, at the very least, disloyal to their country.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of disloyal
Adjective
  • Patrick testified and found himself at the center of an online swarm of sleuths and influencers dissecting every detail of the case, developing theories that portray him as uncaring, unfaithful and even the murderer of his children.
    — Ross Douthat, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2026
  • When the braids had five or more strands, however, the disk possibilities proliferated, guaranteeing the matrices were all unfaithful.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 24 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
Adjective
  • International skullduggery in this case concerned the retrieving of two nuclear warheads from a treacherous Caribbean dictatorship.
    — Ed Olmstead, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Bryan, without chains on his tires, drives up a treacherous farm-country road in the snowy night, which lends the movie a fairy-tale atmosphere.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of treacherous
Adjective
  • In the play’s first act, men show up at a dive bar in Kingston, New York, order a Bud Light, and hand over an envelope to the disaffected man behind the counter named Joey (played by Bubba Weiler) before heading to a back room.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Jack Huston stars as university professor John Jorissen, a Spinoza academic who teaches a philosophy intro course to disaffected coeds at the fictional Ridgemont College in Missouri.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of disaffected

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“Unpatriotic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpatriotic. Accessed 25 Sep. 2026.

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