Example sentences for: unpatriotic

How can you use “unpatriotic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • DC just shelled out a fortune for a new MCI stadium downtown, and a new Redskins stadium, and every idiotic newsman and woman is required to nod knowingly when the sports guy makes some obscure reference to some impenetrable football play, and anyone like me who finds the entire exercise faintly ridiculous is regarded as unpatriotic and unmanly.

  • Flag was among them, but the possibility that the Museum's acquisitions committee would object to it as unpatriotic made Barr nervous, so he arranged for the architect Philip Johnson to buy it (the price was $1,000), with the promise that he would donate it to the Museum later on (which he did, in 1973, when it was worth a lot more than $1,000).

  • But to go back to the beginning, I think it is agreed that euphemism is the deliberate substitution of a socially acceptable, or “laundered” term for one that is considered taboo (for any reason at all--because it is inappropriate to a given situation, irreligious, antireligious, deprecatory, insulting, impolite, indecorous, subversive, unpatriotic, slanderous, prejudicial, and so forth).

  • He had started the bombing just in time to give his supporters the refuge of arguing that to impeach the commander in chief while our troops were in harm's way would be unpatriotic.

  • Some Democrats call Republicans who make these arguments unpatriotic.


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