1647. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., I. § 8. That Meeting being, upon very unpopular … reasons, immediately Dissolved.
1652. Nicholas Papers (Camden), 295. Those who put his Majesty on such unpopular and unpleasing things.
1731. Chesterf., Lett., 16 Jan., in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. I. 245. The disagreeable and unpopular situation we are at present in.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xviii. IV. 163. James was unpopular because he was a Papist.
1863. H. Cox, Instit., III. iii. 628. An unpopular government.
