unsafe
Americanadjective
adjective
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not safe; perilous
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(of a criminal conviction) based on inadequate or false evidence
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If the world gets 1.5 C warmer than pre-industrial levels, 22 percent of people over 60 will be exposed to unsafe heat for at least a month every year worldwide, the researchers estimated.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
A baby bank says parents are turning to "unsafe" practices such as watering down baby formula milk to save money.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The healthcare focus includes investigations into marketing for unsafe products and services that deceive consumers, the memo added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
There is no red banner telling me this particular bag is unsafe.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
And I began to hear his hoarse roaring, that aaonh cry as rich as gold or honey and as spine-chilling as the depths of an unsafe mine or a thousand angry bees.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
I knew I was on unsafe ground, but it proves far unsafer than I had thought.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin
In a word, tourism, especially in Charleston, erstwhile “Best City” in America, and north along the coast to Myrtle Beach — now among the unsafest places in the United States and, therefore, the world.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 10, 2020
It is generally agreed that the U. S. is one of the unsafest places in the civilized world to have a baby.
From Time Magazine Archive
Intense feeling is apt to build upon a half-truth—the unsafest of all foundations.
From Men in the Making by Ambrose Shepherd
Few and simple as these were, they were sufficient to furnish a safe conduct of life even through the unsafest days of the most unsettled period of our nation's history.
From Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe
She had been gone about an hour when a small telegraph boy appeared, and, after boarding the barge in the unsafest manner possible, handed him a telegram.
From Many Cargoes by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
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