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unpatriotic en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English patriotic English unpatriotic From un- + patriotic.

Meanings

1. Not patriotic.
   • "What was done to our country was wrong and unpatriotic and un-American and nobody has been held to account," he later told the Guardian. "There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism." 2012 February 17, Fiachra Gibbons, quoting Bruce Springsteen, “Bruce Springsteen: ‘What was done to my country was un-American’”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2022:
   • Nigeria’s media regulator has directed all TV and radio stations to delete their Twitter accounts and described its use as unpatriotic, escalating a widely condemned clampdown on social media. 2021 June 7, “Nigerian broadcasters ordered to stop using ‘unpatriotic’ Twitter”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2022:
   • What is a Christian's duty, when his country is bled and plundered and ground down to the dust under the iron heel of military despotism, when the political fabric of his native land is crumbling, and his countrymen are listless, selfish, sensual, unpatriotic, not unhappy so long as their bellies are filled and their backs covered? 1858 November 1, “Lettres De Silvio Pellico”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2023:
   • Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic. Countless loyal Americans honestly feel that a world body such as the United Nations should include even Red China, but they fear being called Communist sympathizers. 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., “Transformed Nonconformist”, in Strength to Love, New York: Pocket Books, published 1964, →OCLC, page 13:

Forms

Deriveds

unpatriotically

Translations (10)

th ไม่รักชาติ (not patriotic) · el αντιπατριωτικός (not patriotic) · fr antipatriotique (not patriotic) · ru непатриоти́чный (not patriotic) · fi epäisänmaallinen (not patriotic) · ka არაპატრიოტული (not patriotic) · no upatriotisk (not patriotic) · pl niepatriotyczny (not patriotic) · de unpatriotisch (not patriotic) · da upatriotisk (not patriotic)