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US
/ənˌpeɪtɹiˈɑtɪk/
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[ UK /ʌnpˌætɹɪˈɒtɪk/ ]
[ UK /ʌnpˌætɹɪˈɒtɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- showing lack of love for your country
How To Use unpatriotic In A Sentence
- We don't have to be concerned about the right-wingers labelling us unpatriotic.
- There are a few people who continue to say that what I do is unpatriotic and somehow treasonous.
- Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else. Theodore Roosevelt
- Democrats facing re-election are scared of appearing unpatriotic, fearing for their one-seat Senate majority.
- One of the Bush administration's achievements is to have fermented a climate in which any kind of criticism is instantly deemed unpatriotic.
- Here in the United States, for many months it was considered anti-social if not unpatriotic to even broach one's disagreement with the administration during these troubled times.
- Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else. Theodore Roosevelt
- We have but one resource if such a proceeding is distasteful, and that is, not to vote at all, which is certainly unpatriotic. Laws Direct from Voters
- But to dare to ask the question brought certain denunciation from the neo-conservative political power grid: Only a traitorous, subversive, unpatriotic, flag-burning, communist America-hater would question the virtue of a U.S. military venture. August 2005
- When Bush invaded Iraq and the journalists were told to "Sieg Heil" or face accusations of being unpatriotic, no one uttered a peep in protest. When Put-downs = Punditry