unpatriotic

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Recent Examples of unpatriotic 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 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 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
  • 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
  • Edwards says those who failed him and the disloyal agents have to be held accountable.
    Demetrius Patterson, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 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
  • Two of the astronauts will then transfer to the Starship HLS, which will carry them down to the moon’s south pole, a treacherous area pockmarked with steep craters.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
  • My Titleist ProV1x was waist-high on a treacherous side-hill lie.
    Gabby Herzig, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • His cultural critiques were unmistakably right-wing, but his scorn for the corporatization of universities might have come from the mouth of a disaffected leftist.
    Emma Green, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • 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

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“Unpatriotic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpatriotic. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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