Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unwarranted \Un*war"rant*ed\, a. Not warranted; being without warrant, authority, or guaranty; unwarrantable.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Not warranted; unjustified; being without warrant, authority, or guaranty; unwarrantable.
WordNet
adj. incapable of being justified or explained [syn: indefensible, insupportable, unjustifiable, unwarrantable]
without a basis in reason or fact; "baseless gossip"; "the allegations proved groundless"; "idle fears"; "unfounded suspicions"; "unwarranted jealousy" [syn: baseless, groundless, idle, unfounded]
lacking justification or authorization; "unreasonable searches and seizures"; "desire for undue private profit"; "unwarranted limitations of personal freedom" [syn: undue, unjustified]
Usage examples of "unwarranted".
It is equally nonsensical in itself and unwarranted by evidence to imagine that, in the Egyptian faith, embalming either retained the soul in the body or preserved the body for a future return of the soul.
In the old days, before Ysanne Isard had summoned him to Imperial Center and pointed out his penchant for making unwarranted assumptions, he would have assumed he could not be fooled again.
Again the watching males commented noisily, and Nidisar turned from the board to look at Larid and Fayan with unwarranted disbelief.
She observed that my eyes were upon her, and in an act of instinctive maidenliness she bore her hand to her throat to draw the draperies together and screen the beauties of her neck from my unwarranted glance, as though her daily gown did not reveal as much and more of them.
Captain bullen is convinced that I gave unwarranted help or aid, or some such legal phrase, to carreras.
We believe he universal assertial of parents would be that, if having taken their child to a hospital for tratment, they learned that it had beenused for experimentation, though no lasting harm could come to it from the experiment, someone would pay the penalty for the unwarranted deed, if money or influence or, these failing, muscle, could reach far enough to find the offender.
Trapped with them was a greying ashigaru, a foot soldier, who watched Hiraga with awe and confusion: awe for his fighting ability and because he was clearly shishi, confusion because he wore gai-jin clothes and grew his hair like them and seemingly lived in the Settlement with them, yet was also the subject of these unwarranted attacks.
But, after a fume, he put that thought from him as uncharitable and unwarranted, and resolved to obey the summons.
Stifling his own dislike of such an unwarranted invasion of privacy, op Owen glanced at the two graphs, needles reacting wildly in response to the sexual stimuli mutually enjoyed.
No matter how powerful they were, tight-beam transmissions aimed at one tiny point in the sky had no impact on the normal use of the airwaves, and attempts to ban such narrowcasts were therefore an unwarranted infringement of free speech.
I felt an unwarranted thrill of boldness as I looked other patrons full in the face.
Your unwarranted efforts to cover Sartain were the element which led to the failure of my perfectly-planned scheme.
Such pessimism about the future of the company was not unwarranted, considering looming factors such as urban decline, oversaturation in the hamburger business, and changing population patterns.
In the second place, whatever I said to you was in response to your unwarranted conduct, and should have driven you to reconsider your own behaviour and not animadvert on mine!
He apologized to the stupefied Maxil for the unwarranted interruption.