unfriended
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of unfriended
Example Sentences
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He later unfriended Deng Xiaoping’s China when it opened up its economy, an act Hoxha regarded as abominable.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
"Some of my friends unfriended me because they hold different views. But what I can do? I believe I'm doing a right thing. I want to be a role model for my daughter."
From BBC • May 15, 2024
I unfriended them, then wondered why I had never interacted with them all these years later — weren’t we friends, after all?
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2021
Personally, I have friends I will not be enjoying Messenger video calls on the Portal Go with because I unfriended them on Facebook so I wouldn’t need to in real life.
From The Verge • Oct. 19, 2021
He was a soldier of the sublimest type,—a bold, earnest, self-denying, effective, and high-souled battler of the worst foes of man, and the gentle, kindly, loving defender of the weak, the unfriended, the wronged.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 by Various
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