unreconstructed
IPA: ʌnrikʌnstrˈʌktɪd
adjective
- Not reconstructed.
- Unreconciled to social or cultural change; particularly with respect to the Reconstruction after the American Civil War.
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Examples of "unreconstructed" in Sentences
- She was entirely "unreconstructed" to the day of her death.
- Let's face it, you are a little 'unreconstructed' but that is part of your charm.
- There's a kind of unreconstructed species prejudice at work: a lion is one of us but a lizard is not.
- Sixty-six years after the end of the second world war, and 50 years after the Berlin Wall went up, the so-called unreconstructed Germans are allegedly at it again: seeking hegemony over the rest of Europe.
- The other agencies were overrun by a number of young Indians of what might be termed the unreconstructed class, and these, excited by reports brought in by runners from the openly hostile, were slipping off in scores to join them.
- It’s perhaps more than anything else this realization – that the mobilization of the unreconstructed is a permanent fixture in American politics – that separates, not just the netroots, but the liberal bloggers in general, from Chait and his more high-minded comrades.
- If you buy the biblical spin of the Religious Right folks -- that make up the bulk of the Tea Party movement -- the implication is clear: Jesus will soon return, send all Democrats, gays, blacks, progressives, liberals, college-educated unbelievers, etc., to Hell, while saving what Sarah Palin calls "us" "Real Americans" -- in other words unreconstructed frightened and resentful white lower middle class Americans.
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