Unwarranted
[ʌn'wɒr(ə)ntɪd] or [ʌn'wɔrəntɪd]
Definition
(a.) Not warranted; being without warrant, authority, or guaranty; unwarrantable.
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Examples
- At two in the morning they routed us out of bed--another piece of unwarranted cruelty--another stupid effort of our dragoman to get ahead of a rival. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Nor was it unwarranted: in five minutes more the grating key, the yielding lock, warned me my watch was relieved. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Tartar seemed to think the visitor's descent effected with unwarranted _éclat_, and accordingly he growled once more. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The ultimate success of the kiln, however, proved their criticisms to be unwarranted. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Their dogmatic assertion as final is unwarranted, short of the issue, in fact. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Pausing upon the brink of the ledge I upbraided myself for what now seemed to me wholly unwarranted apprehension. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
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