Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an unwarrantable manner; in a manner that cannot be justified.

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  • adverb In an unwarrantable manner; in a manner that cannot be justified.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in an unwarrantable manner or to an unwarranted degree

Etymologies

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unwarrantable +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • English publication, unless Bode, in his enthusiasm for the book which he was offering the public, inserted the word unwarrantably in Lessing’s statement.

    Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century

  • Had he sprung at her, or snarled, or shown any anger or resentment such as did the other dogs when so treated by her, she would have screamed and screeched and raised a hubbub of expostulation, crying for help and calling all men to witness how she was being unwarrantably attacked.

    CHAPTER XXVIII 2010

  • “I call Heaven to witness that I am a friend to the Union,” he said, but the proposal to adopt without prior amendments was “unwarrantably precipitate, and dangerously impolitic.”

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • “I call Heaven to witness that I am a friend to the Union,” he said, but the proposal to adopt without prior amendments was “unwarrantably precipitate, and dangerously impolitic.”

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • “I call Heaven to witness that I am a friend to the Union,” he said, but the proposal to adopt without prior amendments was “unwarrantably precipitate, and dangerously impolitic.”

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • “Then, sir, you may guess what is likely to follow, when a gentleman hears himself unwarrantably and unjustly slandered,” replied Captain Jekyl, surprised and provoked that his annunciation of name and rank seemed to be treated so lightly.

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • Accident, by throwing into my hands this last letter to the uncle whose goodness you have most unwarrantably and unfeelingly abused, has given birth to an investigation, by which I have arrived at the discovery of the long course of rapacity by which you have pillaged from the same source.

    Camilla 2008

  • If we are unwarrantably familiar, we know who is not.

    Roundabout Papers 2006

  • The great cause why modern humor and modern sentimentalism repel us, is that they are unwarrantably familiar.

    Roundabout Papers 2006

  • “Oh that there were not many who study to build again what they did formerly unwarrantably destroy: I mean Prelacy and the Service Book, a mystery of iniquity that works amongst us, whose steps lead unto the house of the great Whore, Babylon, the mother of fornication,” and so forth.

    Old Mortality 2004

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