unwarrantable
/ʌnˈwɒr(ə)ntəb(ə)l
/adjective
Not able to be authorized or sanctioned; unjustifiable: an unwarrantable intrusion into personal matters...
- Suddenly there was that feeling again; that unwarrantable, totally irrational feeling of optimism.
- 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.
Derivatives
unwarrantably
/ adverb ...- 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 first, encountered here already, is that meaning-claims about music are unwarrantably subjective.
- 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
- by hook or by crook
- by implication
- by inches
- by itself
- by jingo!
- by Jove
- by-law
- byline
- by main force
- by marriage
- by means of
- by mistake
- by myself
- by name
- byname
- by no manner of means
- by no means
- by no (or not by any) stretch of the imagination
- by numbers
- BYO
- BYOB
- BYOD
- BYOG
- by oneself
- by one's fingertips