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.

From Time Magazine Archive

He looked unauthoritative as a newscaster, and the wrong man to be plugging beer when he seemed hardly old enough to drink it.

From Time Magazine Archive

It seems a pity that reckless words, based on unauthoritative sources, should be used to mislead and weaken morale.

From Time Magazine Archive

The reviewer was justifiable, therefore, in using it; although he noted at the same time, as unauthoritative, centrality, grade, sparse; all which have been long used in common speech and writing.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

Nor were the Comparini mistreated there, as they tried to prove by the unauthoritative deposition of a servant, who had left the house in anger.

From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous