unpatriotic

adjective

Definition of unpatrioticnext
as in disloyal

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Recent Examples of unpatriotic Duffy defended his side project for the Department of Transportation over the weekend, accusing critics of the five-part series -- which was filmed over the last seven months and is set to air on YouTube -- of being unpatriotic. — Abc News, ABC News, 11 May 2026 With all that in consideration, Genre Allegory comes off as pretty unpatriotic. — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 8 Apr. 2026 Indeed, in many ways, West’s performatively anti-white, unpatriotic, and cosmopolitan version of polyamory is the blue-state mirror image of tradwifery, which, in its various forms, can fetishize whiteness, nostalgic Americana, and (often Christian) nationalism. — Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2026 Publicly, most of them stayed silent, concerned that questioning the White House’s claims about the existence of weapons of mass destruction would seem unpatriotic. — Brent Lang, Variety, 12 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for unpatriotic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unpatriotic
  1. disloyal
  2. unfaithful
  3. perfidious
  4. faithless
  5. treacherous
  6. disaffected
Adjective
  • The president has essentially purged the House GOP ranks of those perceived to be disloyal.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Directors feared that challenging the CEO publicly would be perceived as disloyal to the very leadership that had appointed them.
    — Albana Vrioni, Forbes.com, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of disloyal
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  • The singer gets back behind the wheel of the gold Trans Am an unfaithful friend stole from her all those years ago and revs up for a nuclear night out.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2026
  • In other words, some hallucinated or unfaithful answers originate before generation.
    — Patrick Dajos, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of unfaithful
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  • Logan Marshall-Green as Melanthius Melanthius is a perfidious goatherd who sides with Antinous.
    — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 18 July 2026
  • This is perhaps the most perfidious practice of this sort of politics.
    — David M. Drucker, Twin Cities, 3 June 2026
Definition of perfidious
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  • Also intertwined are ancient myths of warring city-states, the raw, moody poetry of John Keats, and the modern battle between a faithless husband and his wife, the poem’s raging speaker.
    — Merve Emre, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The French had said the British were faithless.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
Definition of faithless
Adjective
  • Last month, the Coast Guard and Customs encountered several migrant ventures, some deadly, off the Dominican Republic and in the treacherous Mona Pass, between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Time is running out for a Republican Party led astray by a president whose treacherous behavior mimics those assigned to the lowest level of Dante’s hell.
    — Bob Kustra, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of treacherous
Adjective
  • But such attacks aren’t resonating with at least a few disaffected Republicans.
    — John Hanna, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The blueprint included the recruitment of mercenaries and exploiting the grievances of disaffected citizens, from religious fanatics and extremists to soccer fans.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of disaffected

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“Unpatriotic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unpatriotic. Accessed 31 Oct. 2026.

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