authoritative
adjective
unauthoritative
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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.
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
If I may speak frankly and entirely as an unauthoritative observer, I would say it is a regrettable thing that so large a proportion of British secondary schoolmasters and mistresses are unmarried.
From Mankind in the Making by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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 Thomas Jefferson Randolph
