'unpopular' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe someone or something that is not liked by many people, or does not have a lot of people who support it. For example: The government's plan to increase taxes was extremely unpopular with the public.
"Underneath the thick layers of greenwash many of these schemes are unsustainable, unviable and unpopular, but Gordon Brown wants to impose them from Whitehall irrespective of local opinion".
Inevitable compromises in a power-sharing deal made the coalition unpopular with activists from both parties – and the Lib Dems are expected to pay a price by losing half their seats this time.
Falling to the third- from second-largest party in the Catalan parliament, the Socialists have voiced frustration that high unemployment and unpopular spending cuts have not been prominent in campaigning, although across Spain they have sparked massive street protests and, on 14 November, the country's second general strike this year.
The channel's rolling-news hours are diminishing fast, eaten up by Victoria Derbyshire's unpopular new mid-morning show, dreary repeats of The Travel Show and Click on Sundays, and – as from June – even a simulcast of BBC World News's Outside Source in the plum 9pm slot.
Even before yesterday's "hair shirt" budget – which slashed public sector workers' pay, cut back child benefit and reduced dole payments to the Irish unemployed – Fianna Fáil were deeply unpopular.
But as Save the NHS protests and vigils are held across the country, the House of Commons begins two days of crucial debates on the hugely unpopular health and social care bill.
Palin is unpopular in the state she formerly led.
It was in these backwaters that Mr Meciar harvested his vote - and he could still yet stage a further parliamentary comeback, because the Dzurinda government unpopular and Mr Meciar's HZDS party has consistently come first in every Slovak election since independence.
When she gets partnered with the most unpopular boy in the school to square dance in P.E, she has a lot to deal with.
Ironically, just at the time when we need it most, government action is unpopular and out of fashion.
So when it came to the leadership election, most Conservative MPs bought Airey Neave's reassuring message that her candidature was just intended to shake up the unpopular Heath.
