Unreasonably
[ʌn'riznəbli]
Definition
(adv.) to a degree that exceeds the bounds or reason or moderation; 'his prices are unreasonably high'.
(adv.) not in a reasonable or intelligent manner; 'she reacted unreasonably when she learned she had failed'.
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Examples
- So unreasonably early! Jane Austen. Emma.
- You talk unreasonably. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She was displeased; I thought unreasonably so: I thought her, on a thousand occasions, unnecessarily scrupulous and cautious: I thought her even cold. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Shut up, the woman of Pablo said to him and suddenly remembering what she had seen in the hand in the afternoon she was wildly, unreasonably angry. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The certainty of meeting him had not been checked by any of those recollections that might not unreasonably have alarmed her. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The killing came suddenly and unreasonably. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I could not help adding, So unreasonably! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He appears to be unreasonably anxious about tracing her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- This is infinitely ridiculous, he cried, if you were school-boys, you could not conduct yourselves more unreasonably. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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