UNPOPULAR in a Sentence

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It was not that she and Clifford were unpopular, they merely belonged to another species altogether from the colliers.

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 Meanings and Examples of UNPOPULAR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
unpopular
 a.  regarded with disfavor or lacking general approval
Classic Sentence:
1  We will be pretty unpopular with the Confederates who weren't as slick as we were.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
2  Since the Klan affair Rhett and Scarlett had been, with the exception of the Yankees and Carpetbaggers, the town's most unpopular citizens.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
3  Before the announcement of their coming marriage, the two had been unpopular enough but people could still be polite to them in a formal way.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
4  It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
5  The spectators murmured among themselves; for, among the challengers, Malvoisin and Front-de-Boeuf were unpopular from their characters, and the others, except Grantmesnil, were disliked as strangers and foreigners.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  It was not that she and Clifford were unpopular, they merely belonged to another species altogether from the colliers.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
7  It is wrong to encourage a man or a people in evil-doing; it is wrong to aid and abet a national crime simply because it is unpopular not to do so.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
8  Looked at from this standpoint, I almost reached the conclusion that often the Negro boy's birth and connection with an unpopular race is an advantage, so far as real life is concerned.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II.
9  I seem to be unpopular with them.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
Example Sentence:
1  His attitude made him very unpopular with colleagues.
2  He is a man with a reputation for being tough and unafraid of unpopular decisions.
3  She stands a good chance, since only two people are contesting the seat and the other candidate is very unpopular.
4  He was a generally unpopular choice for captain.
5  Greg's tendency to be critical made him unpopular with his co-workers.
6  Johnson was unpopular with the management because he was a well-known rabble-rouser.
7  It's an unpopular measure, but the situation necessitates it.
8  It was a painful and unpopular decision.
9  If you study the numbers closely, you see that liquor is probably wildly popular with women in their 20s, and unpopular with men the same age.
10  At first, the attempts to emancipate the slaves were unpopular in New England as well as in the South.
11  Since the unpopular Darfur Peace Agreement was signed by one of the three rebel factions last year, the groups have splintered into numerous fighting forces.
12  James was unpopular because of his sarcastic and acidulous remarks.
13  If I'd followed his advice and repealed an unpopular car-tag increase, I probably wouldn't have lost my first gubernatorial reelection campaign.