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unsound | American Dictionary

unsound
adjective
us/ʌnˈsɑʊnd/

unsoundadjective (NOT ACCEPTABLE)

(esp. of activities) not suitable or acceptable:
He was involved in unsound banking practices.

unsoundadjective (WEAK)

(esp. of a building) in bad condition and likely to fall down or fail:
The bridge is structurally unsound.

Examples of unsound

unsound
Without adjusting interest rates according to risk and lacking the experience and expertise in risk assessment decisions, however, much money -owed into unsound bubble investments.
The multitude of proposals and the fact that some variants of these proposals were initially unsound, witness the difficulty of the problem.
A simple and natural-seeming signature for the continuation primitives turns out to be unsound.
The idea of comparing the products of different cultures seems deeply unsound, not to mention politically unappetizing.
While it is unsound to polymorphically generalize reference types, it is not necessarily unsound to generalize function types involving reference types.
The disqualifying attributes of "unsound mind" and "pauper" categorized individuals with reference to mental competency and economic self-sufficiency.
In brief, it is unsound thinking to assume that behavioral deficit similarity means biological and etiological similarity.
Therefore, being ' unsound on the most vital truth of all ', how could he have ' a right view of history ' ?
Such passages are likely to be found by most readers to be non-starters and hence pedagogically unsound.
If one's main justification is to escape triviality, that is clearly an interpretively unsound one.
An unrestrained, environmentally unsound materialism, and imbalanced development prevailed, not 'night watchman' rule.
Asking students to do something they cannot succeed at is pedagogically unsound (the word ' try ' or ' attempt ' might have been helpful in this particular instance).
Each had problems which could be ascribed to implementation details, but the concept has not been proven sound or unsound.
The best or, rather, the only good [8/9] economic theory supplied economic history with a foundation which can only be described as utterly unsound.
While this approach is logically unsound, it may be acceptable for some applications if only answer coverage is required.
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