unreconstructed

Example Sentences

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A casual listener might take Mr. Youngkin for an unreconstructed Reaganite, but he sometimes speaks effusively about the affirmative powers of government.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

It was a self-meming performance of the face of every woman who has ever been forced to listen to a bunch of unreconstructed insanity spewing from someone who has unidirectionally failed upward.

From Slate • Sep. 11, 2024

Flannery O’Connor’s thrillingly hard-edged tales about the unreconstructed South and its redemption-deficient malcontents will never lose their power to scratch us awake with their violence, humor and ugly truth.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2024

Most conferences have an opening round through which all can sleep save for the aforementioned next of kin and the unreconstructed geeks.

From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2023

“He went to his death unreconstructed and unloved,” wrote Peter Chew in American Heritage magazine, “having left his mark literally and figuratively on many a stablehand.”

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand