unpopular

Example Sentences

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Grok has reportedly been unpopular among U.S. federal agencies, collectively SpaceX’s single-largest customer.

From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026

“The ‘Turk’ and the ‘whore,’” Mr. Mikhail tells us, were unpopular in New Amsterdam, being outspoken, litigious and—most unpalatably to their frugal neighbors—commercially successful, owning fertile land and a large grove of fruit trees.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

At the time, he used smokers as an example of who should lose access, no doubt because smoking is a widely unpopular and indisputably unhealthy behavior.

From Salon • May 18, 2026

Streeting was obsessed with Labour politics from an early age, which, he told FE Week, made him unpopular with his schoolmates.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

Few laws or acts of Congress have ever been so unpopular with so many people as the Eighteenth Amendment.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler