Synonym: unappreciated, unloved, unwanted, unwelcome. Antonym: popular. Similar words: popular, popularity, population, populist, vox populi, opulent, stipulate, manipulate. Meaning: adj. regarded with disfavor or lacking general approval.
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151. They were defending the right of the pamphleteer to publish ideas that were unpopular in society or inconvenient for the state.
152. This strained family relationships, especially those of Committee members when unpopular decisions had to be made.
153. The government is more unpopular now than it has been for years.
154. Local government reorganisation was also extremely unpopular among people concerned with the smaller local authorities which would be abolished.
155. Hence it was reluctant to take the unpopular measures deemed by some to be necessary to tackle Britain's long-term problems.
156. For a new chancellor, presenting a budget for an unpopular government, it was the best he could do.
157. The more unpopular he becomes, the more President Mugabe intensifies his repression. Local journalists are intimidated and foreign media expelled.
158. Oddly enough, what makes Gingrich so popular with conservative Republicans is also what can make him unpopular with others.
159. This is immensely unpopular in the country and makes a Labour victory more likely.
160. It was the 1960s, and the military had become unpopular among academic and intellectual circles.
161. In a free market, polluting coal-fired power stations and unpopular nuclear ones should be less competitive because of rising environmental costs.
162. This provision is expected to be unpopular with insurance companies.
163. What you hope he will do is to remain silent and let Preval make decisions and take the rap for unpopular choices.
164. She believes in speaking her mind, which makes her very unpopular.
165. There had been a fall in private consumption in 1989 following the imposition of the unpopular consumption tax.
166. Anthony Gould was said to be one of the most unpopular men in the prison because of a crusade against drug abuse.
167. Gradually, I was made to feel unpopular and I applied these new standards to him.
168. It was extremely unpopular because it was a symbol of Roman rule.
169. Being unpopular at school can cause real heartache to children of any age.
170. This radical change of emphasis proved to be extremely unpopular with doctors both in primary care and the hospital service.
171. Making decisions that were unpopular with their subordinates, the managers felt even more isolated.
172. What we did not hear was that his objectionable manner made him deeply unpopular with black people in his district.
173. But as we have seen, he was extremely careful to avoid public association with the generally unpopular pogrom-type anti-Semitic outrages.
174. Barnett did not stoop to the kind of chicanery that had made Davis so unpopular.
175. Mr Perez was unpopular long before the current corruption charges were made.
176. Ankara diplomats saw his resignation as a way of distancing himself from an unpopular government.
177. With important municipal elections due in October,(http://sentencedict.com/unpopular.html) they were unwilling to be associated with his highly unpopular economic austerity policies.
178. Under the highly unpopular Videnov, the Socialist government resisted implementing economic reforms.
179. Can an underground newspaper be banned for discussing controversial or unpopular topics?
180. Without the consensus achieved in Cabinet, ministers are free to disclaim responsibility for unpopular policies.
More similar words: popular, popularity, population, populist, vox populi, opulent, stipulate, manipulate, secular, regular, jocular, manipulating, globular, regularly, avuncular, irregular, singularly, tabula rasa, particular, regularity, triangular, vocabulary, spectacular, in particular, particularly, cardiovascular, at regular intervals, downpour, unpaid, pinpoint.