If you describe systems, beliefs, policies, or people as unreconstructed, you are critical of them because they have not changed at all, in spite of new ideas and circumstances.
[disapproval]
...the unreconstructed racism of the official opposition.
She accused him of being an unreconstructed male chauvinist.
unreconstructed in British English
(ˌʌnriːkənsˈtrʌktɪd)
adjective
unwilling to accept social and economic change
unreconstructed in American English
(ˌʌnˌrikənˈstrʌktɪd)
US
adjective
1.
not reconstructed
2.
holding to an earlier, outmoded practice or point of view
Examples of 'unreconstructed' in a sentence
unreconstructed
He is an unreconstructed Neanderthal in a leather jacket.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The banking system remains as unreconstructed as before the crisis, and still teeters on an inverted pyramid of financial derivatives.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
He was an unreconstructed revolutionary who remained true to his avant-garde instincts through more than half a century of making work.