unwarrantably
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Mr Humphrey also complained that his privacy had been unwarrantably infringed because he had been filmed by CCTV's journalists without his consent.
From BBC • Jul. 6, 2020
Each one of these clauses has, during the past two years, been so unwarrantably construed as to call forth indignant dissents from the liberal minority of the Court.
From Time Magazine Archive
I deny under oath that I committed the offense with which I am charged, or that I attempted to bribe the police officer who unwarrantably arrested me .
From Time Magazine Archive
Joyce comes back to him, unwarrantably penitent, and they start off on a thoroughly unlikely new life.
From Time Magazine Archive
A year or so earlier, in an unwarrantably self-deprecating paragraph of a letter to her brother Buddy, she had referred to her own figure as “irreproachably Americanese.”
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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