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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Unpopular.

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Examples

  • I admire President Obama for having made impossible choices in the interest of the country, despite these choices being impopular with most of the uneducated electorate ... ib

    'People have a right to be grouchy,' Axelrod says 2009

  • Anyone promoting their book who got two free headlines on CNN every day for several months would get a boost in popularity if they were as impopular as Palin.

    CNN Poll: Palin's popularity on the rise 2009

  • Contrary to what he might believe, the prospect of having your neighbourhood turned into a Barrio LA-style is not impopular among middle - and working-class Americans because of radio-host-induced bigotry, but rather because it sucks.

    Is Elitism the Answer?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • The few they have tried to do so far has been impopular due to that nobody gives a damn about the heroes nobody knows about.

    Warner Brothers and DC Comics Getting Their Shit Together « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • Banning what people want gives the supposed savings - no point in banning an impopular product!

    Now they're snooping on lightbulbs. 2009

  • Indeed, European rather culturally similar immigration became so impopular that it was stopped, only to resume in mass scale after 1965.

    Are Low-Skilled Americans the Master Race?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Yes again Norm, denying historical roots to current legislations, whether they lie in WW II or before it (colonialist past was and is a contributor to ethnically impopular but perfectly legal immigration from Africa and Asia), would be utterly silly, but saying that Europe's current legislation is not socially civilized, because over half a century ago there was a WWII appears to me pretty illogical, sorry.

    Immigration rats nest 2006

  • Yes again Norm, denying historical roots to current legislations, whether they lie in WW II or before it (colonialist past was and is a contributor to ethnically impopular but perfectly legal immigration from Africa and Asia), would be utterly silly, but saying that Europe's current legislation is not socially civilized, because over half a century ago there was a WWII appears to me pretty illogical, sorry.

    Immigration rats nest 2006

  • Yes again Norm, denying historical roots to current legislations, whether they lie in WW II or before it (colonialist past was and is a contributor to ethnically impopular but perfectly legal immigration from Africa and Asia), would be utterly silly, but saying that Europe's current legislation is not socially civilized, because over half a century ago there was a WWII appears to me pretty illogical, sorry.

    Immigration rats nest 2006

  • Yes again Norm, denying historical roots to current legislations, whether they lie in WW II or before it (colonialist past was and is a contributor to ethnically impopular but perfectly legal immigration from Africa and Asia), would be utterly silly, but saying that Europe's current legislation is not socially civilized, because over half a century ago there was a WWII appears to me pretty illogical, sorry.

    Immigration rats nest 2006

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