How to Use unreconstructed in a Sentence

unreconstructed

adjective
  • Outside the home, French onion soup is best eaten in an unreconstructed bistro.
    — Joshua David Stein, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The liveliest glimpses of life seemed wedged between the old, unreconstructed city and the shinier, up-and-coming version.
    — John Bowe, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2026
  • The liveliest glimpses of life seemed wedged between the old, unreconstructed city and the shinier, up-and-coming version.
    — John Bowe, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Stem to stern, the GOP is sailing with a full complement of unreconstructed chaos agents.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 20 Aug. 2022
  • The left’s theory blamed an unreconstructed pre-modern approach to wildlife that, instead of protecting it, killed and ate it.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 27 May 2021
  • And indeed, some of the people who came to work for Gröning were unreconstructed followers of Hitler.
    — Richard J. Evans, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2021
  • The justices could impose moral order on the South’s unreconstructed politics of hate.
    — Ian MacDougall, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
  • Proud to be an unreconstructed Reaganite, Abrams further awards himself the title of neo-con.
    — David Pryce-Jones, National Review, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Yes, polls show the unreconstructed leftist is leading the Labour Party out of contention in the June 8 vote.
    — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 11 May 2017
  • Morpheus is a pretty unreconstructed guy at the beginning of Act II.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Rainey’s brother, Edward, had taken a leading role in protesting these codes and the unreconstructed state government.
    — Christopher Frear, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
  • There are lots of compelling ideas like that, from flat-taxers and fair-taxers and unreconstructed Georgists and other sundry practitioners of wonkery.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 30 Mar. 2022
  • When you’re done, there's an unreconstructed Japanese onsen experience next to the parking lot.
    — Jonnie Bayfield, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Our faith in the metamorphosed Kennedy depends on leaving the political opinions of the unreconstructed Kennedy vague.
    — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023
  • In many respects, this simply means reconnecting with his unreconstructed self, the fellow whose politics were set in 50 years ago and haven’t changed since much in their essentials.
    — vanityfair.com, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The bill passed the House because the Freedom Caucus, that claque of unreconstructed extremists who hold the balance of power there, gave in a little.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 19 Jan. 2018
  • For one thing, Labour is now led by an unreconstructed socialist who resisted the party’s Blairite turn to the center in the 1990s.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 8 Nov. 2019
  • For years, the party has demonized judges as unreconstructed Communists and obstructionists.
    — Marc Santora, New York Times, 3 July 2018
  • The lead character’s therapist is an unreconstructed Freudian.
    — New York Times, 29 Sep. 2021
  • People interviewed for this article almost unanimously described the couple, who do not have children, as unreconstructed workaholics.
    — New York Times, 21 Dec. 2020
  • In the Khrushchev thaw, China was the unreconstructed past; Mao proclaimed Russia revisionist.
    — The Economist, 25 July 2019
  • Kennedy and his fellow Republicans have mined this history to suggest Omarova is an unreconstructed communist.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Last year, he was widely depicted as an unreconstructed Marxist and a political dinosaur, destined to lead Labour to electoral extinction.
    — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2017
  • Kamala Harris represents an unreconstructed progressivism of precisely the sort this magazine was founded to oppose and will continue to oppose with all of our energy.
    — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Thanks to Musk’s removal of most of the policies that had prevented extremists from dominating the site, and to the noxiousness of Grok, unreconstructed Nazism runs rampant on the platform.
    — Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Adrienne Campbell-Holt directs this dark comedy of construction problems and unreconstructed attitudes.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2017
  • The only alternative to working within the parameters of the existing agreement to keep Iran verifiably nuke-free is the war of Bolton’s and other unreconstructed neocons’ fever dreams.
    — Jonah Shepp, Daily Intelligencer, 1 May 2018
  • My reputation as an unreconstructed dweeb was instantly established and soon became so widespread that by the next year, foreign exchange students from as far away as Laos were applying to the Baltimore school system just to get a glimpse of me.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • As Oliver pointed out, Brexit champion and unreconstructed fool Boris Johnson described the government's strategy as having its cake and eating it, too.
    — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 12 June 2017
  • But the crusher was George Norris, the unreconstructed populist senator from Nebraska, who insisted that the people, not some capitalist, should develop such a major public work.
    — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2021

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