adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
popular/unpopular
▪ This view has become increasingly popular in society.
▪ It’s now a rather unpopular view.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
deeply
▪ A string of sensational stories has made them deeply unpopular.
▪ She did things which were deeply unpopular to a large section of the political community which she was striving to hold together.
▪ What we did not hear was that his objectionable manner made him deeply unpopular with black people in his district.
▪ It has pledged to end the deeply unpopular draft and to reduce the 80,000-strong army.
▪ The war is deeply unpopular, but Mugabe remains firmly committed to it.
▪ The first assessment was made in 1662, but the tax proved deeply unpopular and was finally abolished in 1689.
▪ Even water privatisation, which every opinion poll showed to be a deeply unpopular measure, was almost six times over-subscribed.
▪ The episcopalians, by contrast, strongly opposed the Union, which proved to be deeply unpopular.
extremely
▪ It was extremely unpopular because it was a symbol of Roman rule.
▪ Both the 6: 30 staff meetings and the WSOAs proved extremely unpopular.
▪ After his speech the night before in the Academy, Brown had become an extremely unpopular figure amongst the ruling elite.
▪ Local government reorganisation was also extremely unpopular among people concerned with the smaller local authorities which would be abolished.
▪ This radical change of emphasis proved to be extremely unpopular with doctors both in primary care and the hospital service.
highly
▪ Yet an extra levy on names to replenish it would be highly unpopular.
▪ Still, the emergency loan was highly unpopular in both countries.
▪ With important municipal elections due in October, they were unwilling to be associated with his highly unpopular economic austerity policies.
▪ Under the highly unpopular Videnov, the Socialist government resisted implementing economic reforms.
▪ It was a highly unpopular Act; nevertheless it remained on the statute books until 1815.
▪ It may have appeared to make political sense for Dole to tie Baer and his highly unpopular ruling to Clinton.
▪ Polls indicate Gingrich is highly unpopular.
increasingly
▪ Rights issues have become increasingly unpopular over the last decade or so.
▪ Their bowed shape can be justified on the assumption that both inflation and unemployment become increasingly unpopular the higher they are.
▪ The links with the unions, increasingly unpopular, dispirited, and losing membership, were no longer a source of strength.
▪ Thenceforward he became increasingly unpopular and involved in frequent quarrels.
▪ Though it succeeded in slowing inflation, it also slowed growth and became increasingly unpopular.
▪ Bradstreet was a moderate who was increasingly unpopular with those who wished to fight royal attacks on the colony's charter.
▪ But it also raises questions for the increasingly unpopular military rulers.
▪ Mr Mugabe's party is increasingly unpopular among city workers.
more
▪ Why would the Labor Party exchange Mr Hawke for some one even more unpopular?
▪ Mrs Thatcher was always more unpopular than her party.
most
▪ Anthony Gould was said to be one of the most unpopular men in the prison because of a crusade against drug abuse.
▪ This estate is now one of the most unpopular in the city.
▪ The war became a most unpopular one domestically as the toll of dead and injured steadily mounted.
▪ The most unpopular of the security forces is the Ulster Defence Regiment, the locally-recruited and predominantly Protestant force.
politically
▪ Lastly, both programmes have almost universally been politically unpopular in the countries where they have been launched.
▪ But raising those rates is a very public -- and potentially very politically unpopular -- act.
▪ The difficulty in cutting government expenditure Cuts in government expenditure are politically unpopular.
▪ What is more, tax increases or cuts in government expenditure are politically unpopular.
▪ They are politically unpopular and discriminate against those with high borrowing commitments, such as those with large mortgages.
so
▪ What made them so unpopular that they aren't even commemorated in a country name.
▪ Barnett did not stoop to the kind of chicanery that had made Davis so unpopular.
▪ The administration would hate this, largely because the petrol tax is so unpopular in the open spaces of the West.
▪ I see now what makes a congressman so unpopular.
▪ They might be, predictably, so unpopular that Parliament would not pass them in the first place.
▪ The vicar is now so unpopular that only a handful of people still attend St Mary's Church.
▪ But what made the community charge so unpopular was its size and certain iniquities.
very
▪ These classes were very unpopular with Contact members.
▪ The good news is that everyone who is anyone wants to meet the man who replaced the very unpopular Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
▪ This was very unpopular with the middle-class whites.
▪ This is likely to be very unpopular and further reinforces individual dependency.
▪ This explains why, when I cam along, I was very unpopular.
■ NOUN
decision
▪ This strained family relationships, especially those of Committee members when unpopular decisions had to be made.
▪ Coaches are paid to make unpopular decisions, and Kasper made one in Toronto.
government
▪ For a new chancellor, presenting a budget for an unpopular government, it was the best he could do.
▪ Ankara diplomats saw his resignation as a way of distancing himself from an unpopular government.
policy
▪ Without the consensus achieved in Cabinet, ministers are free to disclaim responsibility for unpopular policies.
war
▪ Few of them cared to talk about their jobs; they were as reticent as veterans of an unpopular war.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an unpopular decision
▪ Mr Venables must be the most unpopular teacher in school.
▪ The government is more unpopular now than it has been for years.
▪ The taxes proved extremely unpopular with the electorate.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After his speech the night before in the Academy, Brown had become an extremely unpopular figure amongst the ruling elite.
▪ But as we have seen, he was extremely careful to avoid public association with the generally unpopular pogrom-type anti-Semitic outrages.
▪ Coal has become unpopular and, paradoxically, in view of the Greens' increased influence, nuclear power has experienced a resurgence.
▪ For such an unpopular phenomenon, the world sure sees a lot of inflation.
▪ Hence it was reluctant to take the unpopular measures deemed by some to be necessary to tackle Britain's long-term problems.
▪ Repeal also would be unpopular in such places as Augusta, Ga., home of the Masters golf tournament.
▪ Reviving the moribund nuclear industry would be tough and unpopular, and could take many years to produce more power.
▪ To court voters, Richard Nixon had ended the inequitable and unpopular draft.