How to Use undemocratic in a Sentence

undemocratic

adjective
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  • The proposed law is fundamentally undemocratic.
  • But the maître d’ at the 21 Club was undemocratic as well.
    — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2018
  • The passage of the laws 16 months ago was most undemocratic.
    — Harish Pullanoor, Quartz, 29 Nov. 2021
  • But these can come to seem undemocratic and can further fan the flames of populism.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN, 8 July 2024
  • The United States and others in the region say the electoral process in Venezuela is rigged and undemocratic.
    — Jim Wyss, miamiherald, 29 Jan. 2018
  • The amount of power Manchin is about to wield over the Senate may be wildly undemocratic.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2021
  • Trump can't delay the election, of course, and the members of Congress who can were quick to shut down his undemocratic idea.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 30 July 2020
  • But the focus of Xi Thought on soft power is the less developed, less wealthy, and often undemocratic parts of the world.
    — Steve Tsang, TIME, 11 May 2024
  • In Iowa, the story turned out to be the undemocratic disarray of the caucuses.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2020
  • The Cold War was making the United States undemocratic.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2021
  • Or the glutton who wants to buy all the fish in the market—a symbol of someone who is totally undemocratic.
    — Paul Greenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The board of education, at the time, even released a statement saying that the process was undemocratic.
    — Lauren M. Johnson, CNN, 11 June 2021
  • Some might argue that the whole concept of term limits is undemocratic.
    — Amanda Taub, New York Times, 6 June 2024
  • During my time, I was accused of being undemocratic and all that.
    — Laignee Barron / Langkawi, Time, 8 May 2018
  • Tennessee is the most undemocratic state in the nation.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Texans are doing just that, in defiance of the undemocratic stifling of debate wrought by the Supreme Court years ago . . .
    — Marjorie Dannenfelser, National Review, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Trump seems to relate easily to undemocratic rulers and even to envy them.
    — Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 25 June 2020
  • Trump, of course, does not fret about the undemocratic governments in Saudi Arabia, Russia and Egypt.
    — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2019
  • The party also had to reckon with its undemocratic past.
    — New York Times, 3 July 2019
  • Maher laid out a scary undemocratic scenario in the hopes of arousing viewers from slumber.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 11 Oct. 2021
  • William Whitford, a Democratic activist who is the lead plaintiff, called the maps undemocratic.
    — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 June 2017
  • The idea of striking down a law in this way is almost comically undemocratic.
    — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 15 Dec. 2018
  • To some this may seem an eccentric, even undemocratic way to pick the leader of an advanced democracy.
    — R.c., The Economist, 28 June 2019
  • The Supreme Court, by design, is undemocratic, but is there a point beyond which its insulation from the will of the people becomes unjust?
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2021
  • The people who dream of a better world are up against a sclerotic and undemocratic system helmed by people who tell us things can’t be better.
    — Colette Shade, The New Republic, 11 Dec. 2020
  • The leaders of a short-lived 2002 coup against Chavez cited the right conferred by the new constitution to rebel against undemocratic governments.
    — Hannah Dreier, The Seattle Times, 4 May 2017
  • And there are anxious analyses of Trump’s undemocratic rhetoric and impulses from people like, well, me.
    — Ezra Klein, Vox, 10 May 2018
  • Paris views the current arrangement as undemocratic and wants to open up the electorate to include people who have lived in New Caledonia for at least 10 years.
    — Gabriel Stargardter, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2024
  • That would aim to defuse any criticism that the Democratic Party was being undemocratic.
    — Axios, 18 July 2024
  • In practice, the filibuster requires 60 votes to pass legislation, which some Democrats and Republicans have argued is undemocratic.
    — Alex Thompson, Axios, 26 Sep. 2024

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