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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unsafe
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
product
▪ By shifting blame to their consumers, these industries have deftly evaded financial accountability for unsafe products and irresponsible marketing.
▪ It would mean more unsafe products in our homes.
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unsafe products
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▪ If you work in a home office, children may be another source of unsafe noise.
▪ In many developing societies the lack of basic amenities, such as clean water and proper sanitation, produces an inherently unsafe environment.
▪ Lots of workplaces seem unsafe or out of control because of these and other kinds of behaviors and situations.
▪ The boiler burst and the balcony was declared unsafe.
▪ The reasons for the new tunnel were that the old one was a terrible bottleneck, and that it was unsafe.
▪ They feel the world is unsafe and their child needs to be protected.
▪ Which is why a society that blithely accepts this included / excluded ledger is an unsafe society.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unsafe

1590s, "involving risk or danger," from un- (1) "not" + safe (adj.).

Wiktionary
unsafe

a. not safe; dangerous

WordNet
unsafe
  1. adj. lacking in security or safety; "his fortune was increasingly insecure"; "an insecure future" [syn: insecure] [ant: secure]

  2. involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm; "a dangerous criminal"; "a dangerous bridge"; "unemployment reached dangerous proportions" [syn: dangerous] [ant: safe]

  3. not safe from attack [syn: insecure]

Usage examples of "unsafe".

After all, I needed to know at what point it was unsafe for me, the host, to abort the caller.

It was at that moment she realized that Riley Kin- caid was definitely unsafe.

I found this hard to believe, but then it was unsafe to make any assumptions about Dunster, a boy who was full of surprises.

She had sufficient sea lore to understand that this implied shelter from wind and wave, but Hozier omitted to tell her that the only practicable roadstead in the island, being on the weather side, would be rendered unsafe by the present adverse combination of the elements.

In the shadow of old walls and unsafe towers were a pile of gears, a ramshackle table of broken crockery and crude clay ornaments, a case of mouldering textbooks.

While we fully appreciate your wish to remain in Tennessee until her State government shall be completely reinaugurated, it is our unanimous conclusion that it is unsafe for you to not be here on the 4th of March.

Stavely, or a spokeswoman for an industry which is so obsessed with profit that it regularly kills people or mutilates them, using drugs it knows in advance to be unsafe?

Just then the track walker came into Truxton, and reported that he had come from the river on a velocipede, and that while the track was soft it was not unsafe and the bridge appeared to be all right.

And a world made unsafe for mysticism and theocentric religion is a world where the only proved method of transforming personality will be less and less practiced, and where fewer and fewer people will possess any direct, experimental knowledge of reality to set up against the false doctrine of totalitarian anthropocentrism and the pernicious ideas and practices of nationalistic pseudo-mysticism.

So I ask you again, when the owner of that defective car gets into it and drives over Gough or Franklin streets, knowing those streets are extremely unsafe for cars with faulty brakes, and then injures or kills someone when the brakes do fail, do you advocate that the driver not be held accountable for his reckless, despicably antisocial behavior?

She seemed to chain-smoke cigarettes and always have one in her mouth and one in an ashtray, even though the things were considered unsafe and antisocial almost everywhere.

Stavely and her CSM were aggressively opposed to American approval of Montayne, arguing that the drug might be unsafe and should be given more prolonged testing.

This, as far as we could judge from the accounts of foresters, was somewhere in the Gullet dingle among a thicket of hollies above the Dead Oaks, and where tradition says Sire John Oldcastle lay hid during three days when our house at Birtsmereton was searched by the bloodhounds of the Archbishop Arundel, and even our secret room in the pannelled chamber was considered to be unsafe.

It was certainly a pleasant change from her rackety Jaguar, which was so decrepit it was practically useless and probably unsafe.

The discourse and the conversation that followed again melted the Sachem, and he repented and retracted, although he continued an unsafe and unstable man.