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Unwarrantably

adverb
1.
In an unwarrantable manner or to an unwarranted degree.






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"Unwarrantably" Quotes from Famous Books



... long paragraph of blank verses is unwarrantably licentious. Latin poets might as well have introduced a series of iambicks among ...
— Lives of the Poets, Vol. 1 • Samuel Johnson

... could give her small comfort, though she did not attempt to defend their late visitor, as she had so unwarrantably appeared to do when ...
— Bred in the Bone • James Payn

... She was sometimes unwarrantably irritable with him now, but each little fit of petulance was always followed by a disproportionate penitence and remorse. At such times she hovered about him, eagerly anxious to render him some of the ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 • Various

... fateful evening. During the earlier part of the festivities a series of prearranged toasts, accompanied by short speeches, put before the assemblage the Jeffersonian teachings in a light highly favorable—doubtless unwarrantably so—to the ultra state rights theory. Then followed a number of volunteer toasts. The President was, of course, accorded the honor of proposing the first—and this gave Jackson his chance. Rising in his place and drawing himself up to his full height, he raised his right hand, looked straight at ...
— The Reign of Andrew Jackson • Frederic Austin Ogg

... repeatedly "admitted they had no such grievance." No doubt Dr. McCrie is correct. But Mr. James Guthrie, who was executed on June 1, 1661, said in his last speech, "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. Either ...
— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott



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