unauthoritative
- a word derived from authoritative.
Example Sentences
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Your editorial comment apparently came from some unauthoritative source, for analysis of specimens at Harvard University indicate the coal is sub-anthracite.
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It seems a pity that reckless words, based on unauthoritative sources, should be used to mislead and weaken morale.
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He looked unauthoritative as a newscaster, and the wrong man to be plugging beer when he seemed hardly old enough to drink it.
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Does this mean that our decisions will be wholly unauthoritative?
He gives no evidence, and the statement seems to be merely a repetition from earlier and unauthoritative writers.
From Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration by Adams, Joseph Quincy