What is "unjustified"

Usage examples of "unjustified".

The main road is carefully watched by the Minions and is an unjustified risk.

It would be wholly unjustified, for example, to suppose that a certain man got three-tenths of his nature from his father, because the Law of Ancestral Heredity required it: in point of fact, he might get one-tenth or nine-tenths, none or all of a given trait.

Distinctions, rightly awarded, are an aid, not a hindrance to sexual selection, and effort should be directed, from the eugenic point of view, no less to the proper recognition of true superiority than to the elimination of unjustified differentiations of reputability.

Even as she told herself that was an unjustified thought, she soothed her conscience by reminding herself they had spoken of nothing unseemly.

With a sudden and completely unjustified intuition, he swept a hand across the bank of power switches, zeroing them all to black, then watching them as they booted back up again.

Such a suit, however unjustified, however certain of being thrown out of court, can be hurtful to an innocent writer.

Both of our fathers had evil reputations, and although that of my own was unjustified, I knew what it was to be cursed in this fashion.

She might well harbor notions of Normans and their vindictive treatment of unvirtuous or disobedient brides, notions that were neither wholly inaccurate nor unjustified.

I took the telex message out of the envelope and, as reported, there was reams of it: Hughes-Beckett busy proving, I thought sardonically, that my poor opinion of his staff work was unjustified.

Their attack was unprovoked, unjustified and a political attempt to gain power and profit at the expense of our residents.

I looked at them, the more I saw that my senous estimate of Akeley and his story had not been unjustified.

I consider the proposal to send the Standing Naval Force to disrupt these perfectly legitimate Soviet naval exercises is unjustified, dangerous in the extreme, and, in the sense that such provocation and resultant confrontation could well lead to the outbreak of full-scale war, highly irresponsible.

I declare to you that I have been disconsolated at receiving from you such a reproach which is absolutely unjustified .

I want to make perfectly clear that the two bodies exhumed at Cadillac were nothing more than a failsafe precaution, an acknowledgment that certain persons have been raising issues about this office which are so completely unjustified that the best answer seemed to be to double-check our own work.

Such anthropomorphism would appear to be unjustified, but it is certainly true that association is most definitely a mental process, whether we are dealing with insects, crocodiles, birds, beasts or humans.