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How to use unwarranted in a sentence

17 example sentences · adjective

Unwarranted means not warranted; being without warrant, authority, or guaranty; unwarrantable. Example: “The attack was so unwarranted and delivered with such venom that his unpreparedness for it left him speechless.”

Examples of unwarranted by meaning

adjectiveUnjustified, inappropriate or undeserved.

  • The attack was so unwarranted and delivered with such venom that his unpreparedness for it left him speechless.1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 62
  • The dictionaries themselves cover this additional lexis in what can best be described as a piecemeal fashion, with an obvious but unwarranted bias towards colonial era lexis.2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 312
  • This strike action by the RMT is completely unwarranted and unjustified.2021 September 22, “Network News: Union threatens to escalate Class 360s dispute with EMR”, in RAIL, number 940, page 23

More sentences with unwarranted

  • Epiplaphobia as the name indicates is the extreme, irrational and often unwarranted fear of furniture.2015 November 11, “Fear of Furniture Phobia – Epiplaphobia or Furniturephobia”, in FearOf.net. From the entry epiplaphobia
  • She’d had people spit venom at her, but this bothered her more because it was so unwarranted.2006, Natasha Oakley, chapter 3, in Millionaire Dad: Wife Needed, Mills & Boon, page 72. From the entry spit venom
  • Interestingly, Arun himself has confessed that accusing him of being religist is not unwarranted.1993 November 16, Javed Ahmed Khan, “Arun Gupta's mental experiment”, in soc.culture.pakistan (Usenet). From the entry religist
  • We recall the sundrous efforts by well-meaning African leaders to resolve the unwarranted crisis in the sub-region.1980, Nigeria, Bulletin on Foreign Affairs - Volume 10, Issues 6-7, page 201. From the entry sundrous
  • As a weather breeder a great and unwarranted responsibility has been thus shifted to Johnny Woodchuck.1927 January 30, “Ground-Hog Day Holds Its Own”, in The New York Times, page 10. From the entry whistle pig
  • The racist backlash was — needless to say — unwarranted, and incredibly ridiculous considering Ariel is a fictional, animated character.2026 April 7, Jada Gomez, “Halle Bailey Reveals How The Racist “Little Mermaid” Backlash Changed Her Forever, And It’s Actually Genius…. From the entry ridiculous
  • Furniture phobia (or epiplaphobia) as the name indicates is the extreme, irrational and often unwarranted fear of furniture.2017 July 22, Paul Philips, “Fear of furniture”, in Quora. From the entry epiplaphobia
  • Such forgettings are as dangerous as they are mysterious, for they give us an unwarranted sense of security.1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings. From the entry forgetting
  • No word had been said to give me anything to think about, and any surmises I might make were unwarranted.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 32, in The Moon and Sixpence: A Novel (Heinemann's Colonial Library of Popular Fiction), London…. From the entry surmise
  • In the modern era I sometimes feel the emphasis has erroneously shifted towards placing unwarranted importance on how few sundries are recorded.1969, Donald Bradman, The Art of Cricket, revised edition, London: Robson Books, published 1998, →ISBN, page 167. From the entry sundry
  • First, many real-world investors bear little resemblance to the cool calculators of efficient-market theory: they're all too subject to herd behavior, to bouts of irrational exuberance and unwarranted panic.2020, Paul Krugman, Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future, page 145. From the entry calculator
  • These are the same vulture funds now flying over Greece, holding unrestructured private debt and gloating at the prospects of unwarranted profits at the expense of others’ misfortune.2015 July 8, “Argentina’s Debt”, in New York Times. From the entry unrestructured
  • We can say that a message, M, is epistemically defective if either it is false, inappropriate, or connected to other beliefs in ways that are inapt, misleading, or unwarranted.2002, Sheryl Tuttle Ross, “Understanding Propaganda: The Epistemic Merit Model and Its Application to Art”, in Journal of Aesthetic…. From the entry epistemically
  • It was deemed vital to one’s posthumous career to be as certain as possible that no unwarranted black marks appeared on the Heavenly record of prehumous deeds.1978, Malcolm P. Douglass, editor, Forty-Second Yearbook, The Claremont Reading Conference, page 226. From the entry prehumous

Meaning of unwarranted

  1. adjective Not warranted; being without warrant, authority, or guaranty; unwarrantable.
  2. adjective Unjustified, inappropriate or undeserved.

Full definition of unwarranted

Questions about unwarranted in a sentence

How do you use unwarranted in a sentence?
Unwarranted is used as an adjective. For example: “The attack was so unwarranted and delivered with such venom that his unpreparedness for it left him speechless.”
What is a short sentence with unwarranted?
“This strike action by the RMT is completely unwarranted and unjustified.”
What does unwarranted mean?
Unwarranted means not warranted; being without warrant, authority, or guaranty; unwarrantable.

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