unpatriotic

Definition of unpatrioticnext

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Recent Examples of unpatriotic Today’s playbook is similar to 1947 – label any dissent as unpatriotic, subversive, Marxist, and so on. Chris Yogerst, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2025 This shocking disregard for American workers and their role in our nation's future is unpatriotic. Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025 For these unpatriotic 'entertainers,' this was just a CORRUPT & UNLAWFUL way to capitalize on a broken system. Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 5 Aug. 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
  • Turns out, my husband has been suspicious of my evenings away and is now accusing me of being unfaithful.
    Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The actress first turned heads in movies like The World According to Garp (1982) and The Natural (1984), then scared the bejesus out of unfaithful men everywhere with her chilling turn in Fatal Attraction (1987).
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Dec. 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
  • Consumed by rage and betrayal, Eleanor is driven to take a bloody, supernatural revenge upon her faithless husband.
    Robert Lang, Deadline, 27 Dec. 2025
  • Spouses, in this gritty Philadelphia suburb, are mostly faithless, absent or dead.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Snow, ice and freezing temperatures hit parts of Europe on Tuesday, causing treacherous traffic conditions that left at least five people dead in France and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights from one of the continent’s busiest airports.
    Mike Corder, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2026
  • With a combination of rain and snow in the week prior, David Motley, the city’s public relations director, said beach conditions were treacherous.
    Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Like Clooney, Jay is from Kentucky, and the film includes a moment where one of the actor’s fans urges him to run for president, pressure Clooney often receives from disaffected liberals.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Of course, naming specific disaffected individuals could cause their imprisonment or execution.
    Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025

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“Unpatriotic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpatriotic. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.

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