unpatriotically
- 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
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To official Canada, the whole affair was purely domestic: some civil servants obviously had acted, if not treasonously, at least unpatriotically in giving away � or perhaps selling � atom-bomb data and other information.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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 Carlyle, Thomas
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 Henry, O.
In the great Persian War Delphi unpatriotically "medized"—gave oracles friendly to Xerxes and utterly discouraging to the patriot cause.
From A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by Davis, William Stearns