unpatriotic

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Recent Examples of unpatriotic 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 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 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
  • Edwards says those who failed him and the disloyal agents have to be held accountable.
    Demetrius Patterson, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Youngism, the set of stereotypes and practices that discount younger workers as unreliable, lazy and disloyal, has outpaced any other type of ageism — and the economic impacts are startling.
    Jennifer Moss, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Just days before True's birth, Kardashian learned that Thompson had allegedly been unfaithful.
    Clare Fisher, PEOPLE, 11 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
  • Under an imperial decree, her captors become unlikely allies, guiding Jewish refugees through ambushes, shifting alliances and treacherous waters, while Sara confronts leadership, loyalty and love at a high cost.
    Ben Croll, Variety, 29 Sep. 2025
  • In the cataclysmic civil war at Kuru-kshetra, both the divine Pandava brothers and their treacherous cousins, the Kauravas, end up breaking the rules of war to achieve victory at any cost.
    Seamus Sullivan September 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • International responses have been further hampered by an uptick in global crises, which ISIS has used to further drive division and recruit among disaffected populations in nearly every corner of the globe.
    Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
  • These groups are better thought of as fandoms—a hybrid threat network of disaffected people that can include Columbine obsessives, neo-Nazis, child groomers, and trolls.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Unpatriotic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpatriotic. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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