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unwarrantable

British  
/ ʌnˈwɒrəntəbəl /

adjective

  1. incapable of vindication or justification

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

  • unwarrantableness noun
  • unwarrantably adverb

Example Sentences

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The feeling of looking at things with a painful and unwarrantable nakedness was an experience, I learned, that transcended national and racial boundaries.

From Literature

Hurt by such an unwarrantable opinion, Raphael gladly accepted an order from Cardinal Giuliano de' Medici for a "Transfiguration" for the Cathedral of Narbonne.

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But if Dante were to rise up from the grave, how strongly he would rebuke those who are making such an unwarrantable use of his name!

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Confucius can not be accused, save on the basis of unwarrantable reading-in, of insincerity in his teaching of order.

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It can only arise in self-defence, or from the necessity of maintaining the equal rights of every one, and of opposing force to force in case of any violent and unwarrantable infringement of them.

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