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US
/ˌənɹikənˈstɹəktɪd/
]
[ UK /ˌʌnɹˌiːkənstɹˈʌktɪd/ ]
[ UK /ˌʌnɹˌiːkənstɹˈʌktɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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adhering to an attitude or position widely held to be outmoded
there are probably more unreconstructed Southerners than one would like to admit
peasants are still unreconstructed small capitalists at heart
How To Use unreconstructed In A Sentence
- Mr Papandreou's Pasok, embittered and demoralised, remains unable to evolve from unreconstructed popularism and anti-right rhetoric.
- If you buy the biblical spin of the Religious Right folks -- that make up the bulk of the Tea Party movement -- the implication is clear: Jesus will soon return, send all Democrats, gays, blacks, progressives, liberals, college-educated unbelievers, etc., to Hell, while saving what Sarah Palin calls "us" "Real Americans" -- in other words unreconstructed frightened and resentful white lower middle class Americans. AlterNet
- A devotee of the sexual revolution, he remained in many ways an unreconstructed, 1950s male chauvinist pig.
- He is an unreconstructed Eurosceptic, unlike others in the British Labour party.
- By that stage the member had moved from reasoned debate and the National Party research unit's speech notes through to pure, unreconstructed ideology.
- He has been painted by the Western press as a drunk, a psychotic, an unreconstructed Stalinist, and a guy who cheats at golf.
- Much of the city's old heart was left unreconstructed, until the end of the Cold War.
- In his boyhood, the autobiographer is an unreconstructed rustic who might have stepped out of a pastoral elegy of Virgil or Theocritus.
- Oh, it didn't keep them from voting Republican, usually in the national elections, but they lived and died registered, unreconstructed Democrats.
- On the one hand, the study of Canada in the world - Canadian foreign policy studies - constitutes an unreconstructed nationalist project.