unpatriotic

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Recent Examples of unpatriotic For these unpatriotic 'entertainers,' this was just a CORRUPT & UNLAWFUL way to capitalize on a broken system. Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025 To white middle-class America, zoot suits were seen as excessive and unpatriotic, especially during WWII when fabric was being rationed. Alexandra Jane, Essence, 31 July 2025 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 On multiple occasions, Park violently quashed anti-Japanese rallies and dismissed calls for colonial justice as untimely and even unpatriotic. Eun A Jo, Foreign Affairs, 23 Nov. 2022 See All Example Sentences for unpatriotic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpatriotic
Adjective
  • More experienced employees may view it as disloyal or damaging to the organization’s reputation.
    Johnny C. Taylor Jr, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
  • That was not a popular position in 2022 and 2024, when progressives strained to convince voters that the groups attacking them for being disloyal to the party or to Joe Biden were not trustworthy.
    David Weigel, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Both men had allegedly been unfaithful.
    Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
  • There’s a sociological connection between some things that anti-liberals say and some things that certain liberals say, and that’s because certain liberals were unfaithful to their liberalism.
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Her Ashley is the movie’s fourth and fifth wheel, dismissed as both a perfidious troublemaker and a New Age airhead—a life coach in need of a wife coach.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
  • This perfidious situation, unintentional as its creation may have been, was strongly critiqued as far back as 1983 by Jonathan Crush and Paul Wellings in an article in The Journal of Modern African Studies.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 15 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Spouses, in this gritty Philadelphia suburb, are mostly faithless, absent or dead.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
  • In 2016, a record number of faithless votes were cast.
    Robert Alexander and Anna Dawley, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • An experienced hiker from San Diego attempting to climb the tallest peak in the contiguous United States has fallen to his death amid treacherous winter conditions, leaving his two young sons and family in shock and grief.
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Subtitled Into the Grand Line, the next arc will see the Straw Hats enter the treacherous expanse of water called the Grand Line and visit various locations in and around this territory.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The project is described as a supernatural home invasion horror-thriller about a disaffected teenage girl who must team up with a renegade witch to protect her little sister from a murderous coven hellbent on using her as a human sacrifice in an apocalyptic ritual on Halloween night.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 22 Oct. 2025
  • This alienated moderates within his party but electrified disaffected voters.
    Nafees Alam, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Unpatriotic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpatriotic. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.

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