patriotic
adjective
of, like, suitable for, or characteristic of a patriot.
unpatriotically
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a word derived from
patriotic.
Example Sentences
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For once Sophie could find nothing wrong with Sisi's conduct but when her fourth grandchild was unpatriotically born in Hungary, Sophie was ostentatiously uninterested, even sniffed doubts of its legitimacy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of America it would ill beseem any Englishman, and me perhaps as little as another, to speak unkindly, to speak unpatriotically, if any of us even felt so.
From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle
Meanwhile, to allay his anxiety as to the results, he had unpatriotically given the cricket-fields a wide berth, and thus deprived Taylor's of the privilege of his cheer in the house match.
From Acton's Feud A Public School Story by Frederick Swainson
He acted selfishly and unpatriotically, but not with that deliberate villany with which he has been charged.
From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) by Henry Glassford Bell
At Columbus Circle they hove to long enough to revile the statue of the great navigator, unpatriotically rebuking him for having voyaged in search of land instead of liquids.
From Whirligigs by O. Henry
