unpopular

Preposition: with

• electorate: Hague, however, has tacked further to the right, amplifying those stances which were already most unpopular with the electorate.
• voter: Moreover, it is manifestly unpopular with Scottish voters.
• public: These plans are also unpopular with the public who do not want to see their precious countryside destroyed.

Modifying Another Word

• deeply: A deeply unpopular foreign policy has brought suicide bombers to the streets of London.
• hugely: Also wanting to take over from the hugely unpopular Tony Petty is the consortium of local businessmen headed by Mel Nurse.
• massively: Fees have been massively unpopular from the day their introduction was announced.
• politically: They have had to recognize that the conditions imposed are politically unpopular.
• universally: None of the Derby acts so far has been universally unpopular, and no doubt that situation will continue.
• increasingly: Actually I jumped ship, as I was becoming increasingly unpopular due to my trade union activities and anti-war stance.

Modifies a noun

• minority: Would they really be on the side of the judges in the protection of unpopular minorities?
• decision: I think the country is ready for unpopular decisions.
• opinion: It might be an unpopular opinion, but who cares?
• president: He [ Bush ] will leave office the most unpopular president in history.
• minister: Mori was the most unpopular prime minister for decades.
• war: The puzzle is Mr Howard's failure, against the backdrop of a deeply unpopular war, to make greater headway.

Used with adjective complement

• prove: An experiment with ethnic patterns proved unpopular with older male fliers from the home market.
• become: Do you become unpopular by saying no to drugs or to stealing?
• remain: There were no further attempts to cut me down to size after that, although I remained as unpopular within M'tutor's as ever.
• seem: Just why aren't people voting Conservative when the Prime Minister seemed so unpopular on the run up to the election?

Preposition: in

• quarter: These conclusions are, to put it mildly, unpopular in many quarters.