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.
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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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It seems a pity that reckless words, based on unauthoritative sources, should be used to mislead and weaken morale.
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It was simply a provision for constantly recurring arbitration, obtained by reference to a changeable, and practically unauthoritative board of judges.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
Nan's emphasis reflected so directly on her own condition of unauthoritative spinsterhood.
From The Governess by Charles R. Chickering