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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unquestioned
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
assumption
▪ Nevertheless, there is an unquestioned assumption that the pupils selected would have no difficulty in following a grammar-school course.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Ogden's work ethic is unquestioned.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Forbes' allegiance to Wanniski, Kemp and other supply siders who influenced the Reagan administration is unquestioned.
▪ If he had not wanted to allow the man to be prosecuted, he had an unquestioned right to call him home.
▪ In becoming routinized, however, roles and relationships carry an essential ideological function in the fact that what exists remains unquestioned.
▪ It is these markets that lend the behavior of even the most restrictive central banks an aura of unquestioned virtue.
▪ Many find their child-free existence supported or unquestioned.
▪ The meanings and typifications of institutions are unquestioned in the course of everyday life for the people who use them.
▪ They really were part of the unquestioned reality of the culture of the state.
▪ They were mere freighters of doctrine, not questioners, which they unloaded in unquestioned dribs and drabs around their parish.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unquestioned

Unquestioned \Un*ques"tioned\, a.

  1. Not called in question; not doubted.

  2. Not interrogated; having no questions asked; not examined or examined into.
    --Shak.

    She muttering prayers, as holy rites she meant, Through the divided crowd unquestioned went.
    --Dryden.

  3. Indisputable; not to be opposed or impugned.

    Their unquestioned pleasures must be served.
    --B. Jonson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unquestioned

c.1600, "not interrogated;" 1620s, "not to be opposed or disputed," from un- (1) "not" + past participle of question (v.).

Wiktionary
unquestioned

a. 1 (context of a person English) Not subjected to an interrogation 2 (context of a fact English) Accepted without question; indisputable

WordNet
unquestioned

adj. accepted without question; "undoubted evidence" [syn: unchallenged, undisputed, undoubted]

Usage examples of "unquestioned".

But the most ingenious, the most learned, he who was their unquestioned chief, Cyrus Harding, was, alas!

Though Jarrock himself was a man of shifty manner with an unconvincing smile that rendered his sallow face more ugly, there were persons present whose reliability stood unquestioned along with their reputation for judging art treasures.

Captain Kaff, on the other hand, is an officer whose loyalty is unquestioned.

Then he saw himself again, sweeping the natives out of South Africa with the relentless besom of his might, and ruling unquestioned over a submissive people.

Even when these sounds had faded into silence, she remained where she was, hoping that Melia might fall asleep, so that she could enter the hut they shared unheard and unquestioned, but finally pain and thirst overcame her scruples and she staggered dazedly across the moonlit clearing, seeking the only sanctuary she knew.

The Pensacola Address of the Populist nominees on September 17, 1892, which served as a joint letter of acceptance, was evidently issued at that place and time partly for the purpose of influencing such voters as might be won over by emphasizing the unquestioned economic distress of most Southern farmers.

I do not commit myself against this, further than to say that such a ratification would be questionable, and sure to be persistently questioned, while a ratification by three fourths of all the States would be unquestioned and unquestionable.

Suddenly, she found herself looking into the face of Maj Jabin, unquestioned leader of the Kazon-Ogla.

We have sought to gather an illuminating collection of quotations, not merely from standard Marxian publications, but from the speeches of Socialists of unquestioned authority in the international movement.

And there was about it a pompous vacancy, an arrogant nonsensicalness, a latent peril resulting from such a large number of automatons in unquestioned positions, that should all logically indicate this: If Germany once broke, it would collapse somewhat like an eggshell.

The Shields keep to themselves for the most part, but they apparently have a few unquestioned privileges.

The Scientific Revolution that marked the beginning of the modern era introduced a fresh skepticism regarding deeply cherished, unquestioned assumptions, and it introduced new methods for exploring the natural world.

Another ideal of science is skepticism: one seeks to identify unquestioned assumptions, to question common sense, and to critically examine appearances themselves, for they have often been found to be misleading.

The case had changed from a matter of gracious policy to one of unquestioned importance in the minds of the gravest counsellors of the Republic--in spite of the glamor of romance which threatened to lessen its dignity by winning the enthusiastic support of the younger members of the assembly and the jealous opposition of the older senators, who were tenacious of the privileges and restrictions of the ancient nobility of Venice.

The Nickers still stood in the doorway, watching, smiling, recognizing familiar dynamics, appreciating the evidence of a teacher whose control of her class, while not absolute--as it should never be--was certainly unquestioned.