Unreasonable

Examples

• Truth to tell, the supper had been waiting a most unreasonable time. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• No matter how unreasonable the terror, so that it be terror. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Heaven knows I don't mean to be unreasonable, aunt! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I am not so unreasonable, sir, as to think you at all responsible for my mistakes and wrong conclusions; but I always supposed it was Miss Havisham. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Oh, yes, I think you do, said I, because that would be so very unreasonable. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In my youth, I should have chafed and fretted under the irritation of my own unreasonable state of mind. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• My brother is so unkind, so unreasonable! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• They are, accordingly, as might well be expected, still more unreasonable. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Why, it's an unreasonable proposal! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Commence, was Monsieur Defarge's not unreasonable reply, at the commencement. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• You are unreasonable enough, Betteredge; but you can hardly accuse me of that. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Then he will be very unreasonable. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• In fact, you are all rather unreasonable. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He should have respected even unreasonable scruples, had there been such; but hers were all reasonable. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I'm so unreasonable. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• This sentiment, then, as it is entirely unreasonable, must proceed from some other faculty than the understanding. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I am more unreasonable and more unjust than ever. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I coom home wi'out a hope, and mad wi' thinking that when I said a word o' complaint I was reckoned a unreasonable Hand. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• No doubt you are right, and it is unreasonable for us to expect you to act unless we give you our entire confidence. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• No, no, said she, you are quite unreasonable. Jane Austen. Emma.
• You're unreasonable, Fergy. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Nothing is more usual, though nothing may, at first sight, appear more unreasonable, than this way of thinking. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I am not to be intimidated into anything so wholly unreasonable. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Don't think it unreasonable or ungrateful in me,' said Little Dorrit, with returning and increasing agitation. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I was unreasonable, on my side--I was determined to keep my Diamond in the place of my own choosing. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Because I told her that Lawrence Selden was coming; but he wouldn't, after all, and she's quite unreasonable enough to think it's my fault. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Now it seemed one of the most reasonable things in the world that I should have come, and now one of the most unreasonable. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He regretted that he had not at once made even an unreasonable money-sacrifice. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Because when Tom Gradgrind, with his new lights, tells me that what I say is unreasonable, I am convinced at once it must be devilish sensible. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• A man of my age and experience ought to have known better than to vacillate in this unreasonable manner. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

Checked by Ernest