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unˈpopular, a.
[un-1 7, 5 b.]
Not possessed of popular favour.
1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §8 That Meeting being, upon very unpopular..reasons, immediately Dissolved. 1652Nicholas Papers (Camden) 295 Those who put his Majesty on such unpopular and unpleasing things. 1731Chesterfield Let. 16 Jan. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. I. 245 The disagreeable and unpopular situation we are at present in. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xviii. IV. 163 James was unpopular because he was a Papist. 1863H. Cox Instit. iii. iii. 628 An unpopular government. |