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impatriotic en · ADJ

Etymology

From im- + patriotic.

Meanings

1. Synonym of unpatriotic.
   • As a free people we have an unquestionable right to comment on public measures, and contrive schemes to prevent the continuance of any minister in power, who shall have acted in an impatriotic, unconstitutional, or other unjustifiable manner. 1765 June, “The North Briton”, in The Gentleman's and London Magazine:
   • The trick was turned against the contrivers; other eggs prophesied in the most impatriotic manner, but the belief of the Sebastianists lost nothing of its zeal; many people, and those not of the most uneducated classes, were often observed upon the highest points of the hills, casting earnest looks towards the ocean, in the hopes of descrying the island in which their long lost hero was detained. 1828, W. F. Napier, History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France:

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Synonyms

unpatriotic