Example Sentences

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The ridiculous expenditure of some of our mamma-bred undergraduates, who go to college primarily to cultivate social relations, are unknown anywhere in Germany, for a student would make himself unpopularly conspicuous by extravagance.

From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Collier, Price

In the city of —— there lived one Rodman Raikes, unpopularly known as the “Fist.”

From The Flaw in the Sapphire by Snyder, Charles M.