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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an unsound manner.

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  • adverb In an unsound manner.

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Examples

  • I say it again, for a country with an all volunteer army the US to me seems unsoundly militarized.

    War Criminal or Hero? « Antiwar.com Blog 2009

  • It was mob psychology, and it was not, primarily that the price level of the market was unsoundly high … the fall in the market was very largely due to the psychology by which it went down because it went down.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Jim Horning 2008

  • It was mob psychology, and it was not, primarily that the price level of the market was unsoundly high … the fall in the market was very largely due to the psychology by which it went down because it went down.

    "The economy is fundamentally sound." Jim Horning 2008

  • In a nation literally ruled by public opinion, they were like an anchor unsoundly planted.

    Oberheim (Voices) Christopher Leadem

  • Contrasted with the confused movement and presences of a Fabian meeting, or the inexplicable enthusiasm behind the suffrage demand, with the speeches that were partly egotistical displays, partly artful manoeuvres, and partly incoherent cries for unsoundly formulated ends, compared with the comings and goings of audiences and supporters that were like the eddy-driven drift of paper in the street, this long, quiet, methodical chamber shone like a star seen through clouds.

    Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story Herbert George 1909

  • Contrasted with the confused movement and presences of a Fabian meeting, or the inexplicable enthusiasm behind the suffrage demand, with the speeches that were partly egotistical displays, partly artful manoeuvres, and partly incoherent cries for unsoundly formulated ends, compared with the comings and goings of audiences and supporters that were like the eddy-driven drift of paper in the street, this long, quiet, methodical chamber shone like a star seen through clouds.

    Ann Veronica, a modern love story 1906

  • It may plausibly, however unsoundly, be maintained that it is by his emotions, not by his reason, that man differs most from the beasts.

    Impressions and Comments Havelock Ellis 1899

  • He ate a late meal, and retired to bed, where he seemed to sleep not unsoundly.

    A Laodicean : a Story of To-day Thomas Hardy 1884

  • Is not the mind unsoundly sensitive that finds an offence in a request like that?

    The Recreations of a Country Parson Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd 1862

  • Mr. Ruskin argues, unsoundly enough, from effects; the great

    Art in England Notes and Studies Dutton Cook 1856

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