unjustifieddisapproving

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unwarranted | American Dictionary

unwarranted
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ʌnˈwɑr·ən·tɪd, -ˈwɔr-/
lacking a good reason; unnecessary:
They denounced the investigation as an unwarranted interference with their business.

Examples of unwarranted

unwarranted
Yet both conclusions are mistaken, because both inferences are unwarranted.
Such a conclusion was entirely unwarranted; the blubber could have come from a whaling ship or from a whale dead from natural causes.
Central bankers now viewed political pressure as unwarranted interference into the central bank's legal and moral prerogative to conduct independent monetary policy.
Admittedly, if it were literally impossible for a person to conform his behavior to the law, one might feel punishment was unwarranted.
Moreover, the absence of crucial statistical evidence, such as significance tests, may lead to unwarranted interpretations, with unfortunate consequences.
However, he rejects the position that science is the sole arbiter of the real, calling it a form of ' unwarranted reductionism ' (p. 90).
Moreover, it is unwarranted to assume that the significance of a putatively foundational practice is simply its nonlegal content.
On the other hand, the common suggestion that scanning across images is something that people are generally constrained to do when imaging, is unwarranted.
The first is that the assumption is unwarranted in the absence of an adequate and robust taxonomy of implicatures.
Firstly, it is clear that the explanatory power given to the notion of the separation of the home and workplace is unwarranted.
His application of those values is somewhat more problematic, as many of his applications require assumptions that appear to be unwarranted.
Nevertheless, the rejection of psychosocial influences was unwarranted.
The conclusion that reflectances figure in representational content is still unwarranted.
Unfortunately, this optimistic picture is at least premature, and probably unwarranted.
My purpose in this paper is to argue that these presuppositions are unwarranted.
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