Example sentences for: unwarranted

How can you use “unwarranted” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Even though Kosovo was the West's attempt to compensate for the failures outlined in Slaughterhouse , as recently as last September Rieff opposed military action against Serbia in an op-ed, calling such intervention unwarranted because the sufferings of the Kosovars "pale in comparison" with the starvation of refugees in southern Sudan and Sierra Leone.

  • I see the rather boring point about using alumni to cover both men and women, and I quite agree that the use of relatively newer and less widely used terms like authoress, aviatrix , and poetess seems to be a deliberate, unwarranted attempt to identify someone as a female; but a graduate of the feminine gender is a `woman graduate' = alumna , the `first woman dancer in a ballet company' is a prima ballerina (I've never heard of a “prime ballerino”), and a `woman opera star' is a diva or prima donna . I hesitate to point out that we use prima donna of men, too, because my critics will say that they disapprove of the term's second life as designating a “temperamental person of either sex.

  • Goofy Teutonic confidence unwarranted by history.

  • Faced with the big chemical companies' support of the treaty, opponents tried arguing that America's small businesses would bear an unwarranted burden.

  • It is difficult to assess exactly what impact this misleading claim of precision had on policy makers and other readers, but we might suspect that it contributed to the unwarranted confidence in the study's findings.


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