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Example sentences for "unpopularity"

Lexicographically close words:
unpolarized; unpolished; unpolitical; unpolluted; unpopular; unpowdered; unpractical; unpracticed; unpractised; unprecedented
  1. It is not my ambition to rival at home the unpopularity of N.

  2. The principal reason for his unpopularity was just that habit of his of saying what he thought no matter where or when or to whom.

  3. These measures, though winning some unpopularity for Tachôs, enabled him to raise eighty thousand native troops and ten thousand Greeks, to equip a fleet of two hundred vessels, and to engage the best generals of the period.

  4. Nothing shows more clearly the unpopularity of William than the barren results of this victory.

  5. As the war with France dragged on, and Maximilian, by his hesitancy and vacillation, continued to frustrate the plans of his generals, and render his own undoubted courage of no avail, his unpopularity increased from day to day.

  6. Whatever unpopularity he incurred at the Capitol, she more than offset by her charming and gracious personality.

  7. Still, if he could unite the party on the principle of non-intervention with slavery in the Territories, the risk of temporary unpopularity would be worth taking.

  8. His attitude earned him at the time unpopularity among his country-people on the spot, and should now redound to his credit.

  9. The unpopularity of Albert in high society had not diminished with time.

  10. The Postmaster-General's unpopularity with his employees was not diminished by his reference to these appeals as "nothing more or less than blackmail.

  11. The Convention, perceiving their unpopularity and danger, began to look about them anxiously for the means of defence.

  12. Punch somewhat reluctantly acquiesced in the view that non-intervention in foreign disputes was the best policy, but his comments with pen and pencil reflect the extreme unpopularity of Prussia.

  13. Unpopularity entailed by it 233 Answer of Menon--plurality of virtues, one belonging to each different class and condition.

  14. They tell us that Sokrates was the constant enemy of this school, but that nevertheless he was unjustly confounded with them by the comic poets, and others; from which confusion alone his unpopularity with the Athenian people arose.

  15. Notwithstanding this happy recovery, there is yet a heavy and severe clamour against Dundas, and I shall not be surprised if his unpopularity should very materially injure Pitt's character and Government.

  16. What was still more extraordinary, these unhappy events greatly increased the unpopularity of Lord Clive.

  17. Was it to be expected that such men would gratuitously take on themselves the labour and responsibility of Ministers, and the unpopularity which the best Ministers must sometimes be prepared to brave?

  18. With the power of an executive government, it has drawn to itself some of the vices, and all the unpopularity of an executive government.

  19. But to unpopularity Grenville opposed a dogged determination, which sometimes forced even those who hated him to respect him.

  20. Had he taken office at this time, he would in all probability have shared largely in the unpopularity of Pulteney, Sandys, and Carteret.

  21. His severity increased the unpopularity from which it had sprung.

  22. In addition to the public causes for the hatred of the people against the minister, there were also personal reasons of rapidly increasing strength for his unpopularity with his own class.

  23. An extremely dangerous conspiracy hatched at this time in Andalucia was discovered, and contributed much to the increased unpopularity of the Guzmans.

  24. So preposterous as well as unconstitutional a way of talking could not but aggravate his unpopularity with that great body he pretended to contemn.

  25. Pepys, in his Diary, has several sharp remarks on the misconduct and unpopularity of the bishops, though himself an episcopalian even before the restoration.

  26. The unpopularity of Cromwell's government appears strongly in the letters of this collection.

  27. There were other causes for the growing unpopularity of the King and of his Ministers, but the first was their policy of peace.

  28. Doubtless the passage of the act was made easier by the general unpopularity of railroad enterprise in 1878, although adequate reasons for additional legislation undoubtedly existed.

  29. The sexes are practically alike in all plumages.

  30. The locality was inland, at El Oro, on the east side of the Victoria Mountains, about thirty miles from Todos Santos.

  31. Under the circumstances, their hostility to the new order of things was natural, but the unpopularity of Struensee among the people, whom he sought so greatly to benefit, is not so easy to understand.

  32. The Princess-Dowager was hooted as she drove through the streets of Canterbury on her way to Dover, and so great was her unpopularity that it was rumoured that London would be illuminated in honour of her departure.

  33. One of the reasons for the early unpopularity of George I was that he brought with him a large suite from Hanover.

  34. Relying upon the general unpopularity of the Barukzyes with the Douranee tribes, whom the Sirdars had so long and so severely oppressed, Major Rawlinson exerted himself to get up a Douranee movement in our favour.

  35. It appeared to him that a failure in the Khybur Pass would bring down such a weight of unpopularity upon him that his very throne would be jeopardised by the disaster.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unpopularity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.