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Unwarranted   /ənwˈɔrəntɪd/   Listen
Unwarranted

adjective
1.
Incapable of being justified or explained.  Synonyms: indefensible, insupportable, unjustifiable, unwarrantable.
2.
Without a basis in reason or fact.  Synonyms: baseless, groundless, idle, unfounded, wild.  "The allegations proved groundless" , "Idle fears" , "Unfounded suspicions" , "Unwarranted jealousy"
3.
Lacking justification or authorization.  Synonyms: undue, unjustified.  "Unwarranted limitations of personal freedom"






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— The United States of America Part I • Ediwn Erle Sparks

... mother. As for Tasper Britt, in sitting room or hall, on the street or on the lawn of the Harndens, he was ignored as completely, yet sweetly, as if he were an innocuous dweller in the so-called Fourth Dimension—to be seen through—even walked through—a mere shade, uninterred, unhonored, and unwarranted. ...
— When Egypt Went Broke • Holman Day

... Elector with the story of this strange and irreprehensible man, on which occasion, pressed by the questions of the astonished sovereign, he could not avoid mentioning the blame which lay heavy upon the latter's own person through the unwarranted actions of his Arch-Chancellor, Count Siegfried von Kallheim. The Elector was extremely indignant about the matter and after he had called the Arch-Chancellor to account and found that the relationship which he bore to the house of the Tronkas was to blame for it all, he deposed ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. IV • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke


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