Like a pariah

Usage examples of unpopular.

Her energy in the furtherance of such an unpopular idea as Anarchism, her deep earnestness, her courage and abilities, find growing understanding and admiration.

The strangers of the West had violated the city, and bestowed the sceptre, of Constantine: their Imperial clients soon became as unpopular as themselves: the well-known vices of Isaac were rendered still more contemptible by his infirmities, and the young Alexius was hated as an apostate, who had renounced the manners and religion of his country.

Brown had certainly done so, and her latest favorite, Abdul Karim, who called himself the Munshi, was almost as arrogant and unpopular.

Our Catholic countrymen were unpopular, not so much because they believed in Transubstantiation, as because they were unjustly suspected of sympathising with the Emperor or with the King of France.

But soon I learned that few men were as unpopular as those who worked in customshouses gathering taxes for Romans.

It was just the kind of unproductive, noncommercial afternoon that was beginning to make dope-smokers so unpopular with corporate America.

Before the French Revolution the sale of Carrots and oranges was prohibited in the Dutch markets, because of the unpopular aristocratic colour of these commodities.

Madame de Polignac was most unpopular with all classes, and that her unpopularity was not undeserved.

His sympathy with Puseyism made him unpopular with large and influential sections of the religious public.

Some were criminals, some had shamed or ruined their family names, some were very unpopular with the Satrap himself.

Also, as Khaki was an Arab from one of those sheikdoms that Washington was always trying to reach on the sly, he had certain built-in protections that came when the government concluded back-channel negotiations with politically unpopular people.

Despite the malicious attacks on him, the furor over the Alien and Sedition Acts, unpopular taxes, betrayals by his own cabinet, the disarray of the Federalists, and the final treachery of Hamilton, he had, in fact, come very close to winning in the electoral count.

He was a corn dealer who travelled with the army, unpopular with the quartermasters who dealt with him, suspected by them, because of his rapacity, to be sympathetic with the French.

The region before the throne was a gilt-and-ivory battlefield of policy wherein every move and every strategic alliance had been laid down by his father and now must be fought and refought and reforged by an unpopular successor.

In this climate, the Arab regimes feel they need to be very careful about their support for the United States, and particularly for American policies that are unpopular with their people.