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单词 unwarrantable
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Definition of unwarrantable in English:

unwarrantable

adjectiveʌnˈwɒr(ə)ntəb(ə)lənˈwɔrəntəbəl
  • Not able to be authorized or sanctioned; unjustifiable.

    an unwarrantable intrusion into personal matters
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.
    • Certainly the delay here is not unwarrantable.
    • I wish they had chosen the way of non-violence in resisting what they rightly regard as an unwarrantable encroachment upon their country.
    • Ironically, this is the same kind of ultimately unwarrantable conviction that religion wants its practitioners to adopt: belief without demonstrable proof.
    • Suddenly there was that feeling again; that unwarrantable, totally irrational feeling of optimism.
    Synonyms
    inexcusable, unjustifiable, unjustified, unpardonable, unforgivable, inexpiable
    untenable, insupportable, unsustainable, unwarranted, unjustifiable, unjustified, unsound, ill-founded, unfounded, groundless, baseless, flimsy, weak, shaky, flawed, faulty, defective, invalid, specious, arbitrary, implausible, absurd, illogical, irrational, preposterous, senseless, unacceptable

Derivatives

  • unwarrantably

  • adverbʌnˈwɒr(ə)ntəbliˌənˈwɔrən(t)əbli
    • The great cause why modern humor and modern sentimentalism repel us, is that they are unwarrantably familiar.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The first, encountered here already, is that meaning-claims about music are unwarrantably subjective.
      • Some important Baptist individuals and churches had left the denomination over the question of open versus dosed communion, and discussion of the issues was ‘unwarrantably restricted.’
      • The evidence relied on by Evans in support of this inference is ignored or dismissed by Irving, unwarrantably so in the opinion of Evans.
  • unwarrantableness

  • nounʌnˈwɒr(ə)ntəblnəs
 
 

Definition of unwarrantable in US English:

unwarrantable

adjectiveənˈwôrəntəbələnˈwɔrəntəbəl
  • Not able to be authorized or sanctioned; unjustifiable.

    an unwarrantable intrusion into personal matters
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I wish they had chosen the way of non-violence in resisting what they rightly regard as an unwarrantable encroachment upon their country.
    • We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.
    • Ironically, this is the same kind of ultimately unwarrantable conviction that religion wants its practitioners to adopt: belief without demonstrable proof.
    • Certainly the delay here is not unwarrantable.
    • Suddenly there was that feeling again; that unwarrantable, totally irrational feeling of optimism.
    Synonyms
    inexcusable, unjustifiable, unjustified, unpardonable, unforgivable, inexpiable
    untenable, insupportable, unsustainable, unwarranted, unjustifiable, unjustified, unsound, ill-founded, unfounded, groundless, baseless, flimsy, weak, shaky, flawed, faulty, defective, invalid, specious, arbitrary, implausible, absurd, illogical, irrational, preposterous, senseless, unacceptable
 
 
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