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When I mentioned the film on Twitter, I received a few responses citing the critical line about the film at the time of its release—which was sharply and, I thought, unwarrantedly negative.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 13, 2016

From brokerage offices have poured forth a flood of market letters, rumors and reports that painted the current economic picture in unwarrantedly pessimistic colors.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last January a straw poll of the 32,000 students at U.T.'s main campus in Austin showed 80% favoring Erwin's impeachment on the ground that he had "unwarrantedly interfered" with school operations.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is a hard moment for mothers, and no wonder that they seem unwarrantedly adamantine.

From Missy by Gatlin, Dana

In defining the term more precisely there is a tendency either unwarrantedly to narrow or unduly to extend and overemphasize some one or another of the different senses of the term.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra