How to Use unpatriotic in a Sentence

unpatriotic

adjective

• Trump and his aides have argued the protests are unpatriotic and disrespectful to the flag and those who have fought to protect the US.
  — Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 28 Sep. 2017
• The general public in much of the U.S. was uninformed about the virus because of the crackdown on news and any speech deemed unpatriotic.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
• Some even went so far as to accuse the coaching pair of being unpatriotic.
  — Blair Donovan, Country Living, 14 May 2019
• That, in turn, led the president to berate the league and its players, framing them as unpatriotic.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2023
• Treason is not a catch-all phrase for unpatriotic acts.
  — Stefanie Lindquist, The Conversation, 26 Jan. 2020
• And if the Chinese team performs well, these complaints may be seen as unpatriotic.
  — David Bachman, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2022
• But around the league there were players who knelt in silent protest of the treatment of African-Americans by police, and Trump blasted them as unpatriotic.
  — Jason Carroll, CNN, 6 June 2018
• The kneeling wasn’t in protest of the national anthem nor was it because the players were unpatriotic.
  — baltimoresun.com, 24 May 2018
• George W. Bush had won in 2004 by painting Kerry as aloof and unpatriotic.
  — Alyssa Mastromonaco, Marie Claire, 16 Mar. 2017
• There are those who oppose his views, some even calling him unpatriotic.
  — Lavendrick Smith, charlotteobserver, 15 June 2017
• In the months that followed, the president spoke repeatedly about the protests and shared his thoughts on Twitter, arguing that the protests were unpatriotic.
  — P.r. Lockhart, Vox, 5 June 2018
• In the months that followed, the president repeatedly spoke about the protests and shared his thoughts on Twitter, arguing that the protests were unpatriotic.
  — P.r. Lockhart, Vox, 24 May 2018
• Zhao faced fierce backlash in China when old quotations of hers emerged and were deemed unpatriotic by some Chinese.
  — New York Times, 3 Feb. 2022
• Coffee has been a major part of our culture since the Boston Tea Party in 1773 made drinking tea unpatriotic.
  — Bryony Gilbey, chicagotribune.com, 18 Mar. 2021
• Kaepernick, who was the 49ers quarterback, became the face of the protests that drew criticism from fans and politicians who believed the demonstrations to be unpatriotic.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 2 May 2018
• He was deemed unpatriotic and essentially banned from the sport.
  — Dahleen Glanton, chicagotribune.com, 28 May 2018
• Call me an American, but knowing there’s more horsepower and torque available but out of my reach leaves me feeling sad and unpatriotic.
  — Jason Fogelson, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
• Those who agreed with him through Nike's recall was unpatriotic and the result of too much of a focus on political correctness.
  — Serena O'Sullivan, azcentral, 3 July 2019
• But Trump accused the players of being unpatriotic, and suggested they be fired for their actions.
  — Jill Colvin and Jonathan Lemire, courant.com, 5 June 2018
• To make amends for refusing to hear the pleas for equality and justice and, worse, its role in allowing them to be framed as disrespectful and unpatriotic.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2020
• The denial of full and free and fair elections is the most un-American thing that any of us can imagine, the most undemocratic, the most unpatriotic, and yet, sadly, not unprecedented.
  — ABC News, 13 July 2021
• In China, ceding a top technology asset in the middle of a contentious battle with the U.S. is seen as unpatriotic.
  — Kurt Wagner, Bloomberg.com, 11 Sep. 2020
• Claiming his Muslim faith forbade him from fighting in the war, Ali was condemned by some as unpatriotic, and praised by antiwar activists.
  — oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2021
• The Muck affair helped to brand the European tradition as suspect and unpatriotic.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 2 July 2019
• To her, casting criticism of the United States as unpatriotic is unfair.
  — Author: Moriah Balingit, Laura Meckler, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 2020
• Oil is seen as such a boon that even questioning how it’s regulated can be branded unpatriotic.
  — Gaiutra Bahadur Keisha Scarville, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2024
• The Colts were among the teams denying that their protest was unpatriotic, a point Kaepernick also made but that has often been drowned out by those - including President Trump - latching onto the issue.
  — CBS News, 14 Sep. 2020
• Meanwhile, President Trump—who inflamed the issue last year by assailing the protests as unpatriotic—has been mostly silent on the topic this season.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2018
• Trump has frequently tweeted criticism of athletes and NFL players who kneel, painting them as unpatriotic and calling for them to be fired.
  — Mahita Gajanan, Time, 5 June 2018
• Ali, initially condemned as unpatriotic by much of America, became a powerful symbol for the growing anti-war movement.
  — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2024

Last Updated: 23 Oct 2024