unreconstructed

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Recent Examples of unreconstructed Thousands of anticommunist agitators, professional patriots, and unreconstructed confederates gathered to protest and disrupt. Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2024 Walton remained an unreconstructed hippie the rest of his life. Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 28 May 2024 The most direct criticism of Peltz came from Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a management professor at Yale who is an unreconstructed fan of Iger’s. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024 Katznelson does not spare the reader the vivid, revolting details of the unreconstructed bigotry of many southern Democrats toward African Americans. Taeku Lee, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2013 See All Example Sentences for unreconstructed
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unreconstructed
Adjective
  • Hadid's comments came after she was hospitalized in September 2025 for chronic neurological Lyme disease, which she was diagnosed with at age 16.
    Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026
  • In the study, 20 patients with chronic wounds used the newer LYMA Laser PRO for four weeks and their wounds healed more fully than those in the placebo group.
    Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 15 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • But the Coop had one thing that failed cooperatives didn’t: Joe Holtz, a gregarious 22-year-old from Sheepshead Bay with a mind for numbers and an incorrigible idealism.
    The Editors, Curbed, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Mary Roy, too, married to flee violence—her father, a civil servant under the British, beat his wife and whipped his children—only to find that her husband was an incorrigible drunk.
    Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • There is more, including a challenge the Justices will hear, on March 2nd, to a law restricting gun ownership for habitual drug users—a statute under which Hunter Biden, the former President’s son, was convicted, before his father pardoned him.
    Amy Davidson Sorkin, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • In court, an assistant state attorney said McCoy never should have been driving, telling the judge that his license was revoked as a habitual traffic offender.
    Steven Yablonski, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • Chris Matthews, the inveterate Washington insider and analyst, joins us to talk about the state of politics and the press.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 5 Dec. 2025
  • The La Mancha manor home’s namesake, Josie, (real name is José Fernández-Pacheco) is an inveterate aesthete who is best known to Spanish television audiences as a presenter extraordinaire.
    Maite Sebastiá, Architectural Digest, 4 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The paper noted that over 100 searches had been conducted on Mount Baldy, with 14 confirmed deaths, since 2020.
    David Chiu, PEOPLE, 30 Dec. 2025
  • There are no confirmed reports of illnesses associated with the recall.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 25 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • This shift won’t only make unregenerate oil producers richer.
    Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2021
  • One stalks about the room like a criminal imprisoned, unregenerate, incorrigible.
    Patricia Highsmith, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
Adjective
  • The rapper, who lost his left eye to congenital glaucoma, will be supervised by the Bureau of Prisons’ Philadelphia Residential Reentry Management Office during his community confinement, a BOP spokesman told USA Today.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2026
  • This can affect fetal and infant health development, potentially resulting in premature birth, low birth weight and a higher risk of congenital anomalies, the report said.
    Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 4 Jan. 2026
Adjective
  • He was eventually promoted to the 53-man roster and played in the final five games of the regular season.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Love threw for 323 and four touchdowns after missing the final two regular-season games.
    CBS News, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2026

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“Unreconstructed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unreconstructed. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.

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