unpopular
IPA: ʌnpˈɑpjʌɫɝ
adjective
- Lacking popularity.
- Not liked or popular; disliked or ignored by the public.
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Examples of "unpopular" in Sentences
- TARP was unpopular from the get-go, and Americans opposed its extension 56-32 last January, according to a poll then from Diageo/Hotline.
- He said he hoped to work with Fife council leader Peter Grant and hoped he would agree to stop what he called the unpopular care home charges.
- Generally, any analysis of possible GOP courses of action that does not start with the observation that the GOP has become ridiculously unpopular is in serious danger of reaching erroneous conclusions.
- Fans could pack tiny, dingy venues on the edge of various downtowns, and the young people who sustain unpopular popular music could afford the modest cover charges and the watered-down alcoholic beverages.
- It is the right to engage in unpopular speech -- speech challenging the status quo, which the angry mob or the tyrannical government would be tempted to suppress -- that the First Amendment protects for all of us.
- Put briefly, the rigorous econometric analysis undertaken by these four scholars led them to conclude that "to the extent that counterinsurgent forces engage in unpopular and aggressive operations that generate specific local grievances, they are likely to facilitate increased recruitment and support for insurgent groups."
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