How To Use Unreasonably In A Sentence
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You many not choose a name that is obscene, offensive, unreasonably long or contrary to public interest.
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Burnet observed of him, not unreasonably, that ‘he seemed to think that what form soever was uppermost it might be complied with’.
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The authority acted unreasonably making the averment that the proposal would place pressure on greenfield sites elsewhere in the national park.
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The last example also contains paronomasia; here, the pun is on possessed meaning both having come into possession and unreasonably determined.
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Nearly two-thirds of daughters-in-law accused their husband's mother of 'unreasonably jealous maternal love'.
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Amid panicked selling, buyers may sit on the sidelines until prices crater to unreasonably low values.
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We live in Georgia where it gets unreasonably hot in the summers .... need less to say my story involves, lightening, a burned out transformer, an air conditioner crame and 98 degree heat.
Cramer - French Word-A-Day
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Marcus makes clear that at every stage she behaved unreasonably, unsociably, and undutifully.
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As it happens, summer mounted a last minute insurrection and the day was unreasonably hot, with everyone dressed for the wrong season and mopping their brows.
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As the type of Celtic speech that has penetrated farthest to the west is that known as the Goidelic or Irish, it has not unreasonably been thought that this must have been the type that arrived in Britain first.
Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times
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Karpov probably saw White's following sacrifice but believed, not unreasonably, that he could defend against it.
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By the natives the pepino is, and not altogether unreasonably, believed to be injurious.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests
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An absolute prohibition against assignment is less popular than a qualified prohibition which requires a landlord not to withhold consent unreasonably.
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Tea was derationed in 1952 and the sales management (not unreasonably) thought there was going to be an increase in sales as a result.
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He had been unreasonably cruel to that poor nurse, to all of the nurses in fact!
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In other situations the publication of suspicions may unreasonably give rise to public disquiet and speculation.
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They acted unreasonably when they turned down Jill's application.
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his prices are unreasonably high
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But many black legislators are pushing for strong enforcement of the federal Voting Rights Act from the Obama Justice Department, which must preapprove political maps for several states and ensure that minority voting power is not unreasonably diluted.
Census: Hispanics surpass blacks in most U.S. metros
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The cuts would also unreasonably increase demands on private charity.
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The district judge's finding that the husband had unreasonably overspent in housing himself was wrong and miscalculated.
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The Court of Criminal Appeal held that the jury acted unreasonably in convicting him of that count.
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He became so unreasonably importunate in his addresses to the daughter of one of the clergymen of Aberdeen, that it was found necessary to put him under restraint.
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The federal agency "has unreasonably delayed action on the requested waiver," according to the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
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In such circumstances, if the freeholder is unreasonably delaying or withholding his consent, you can apply to court for a declaration consenting to the sale.
Times, Sunday Times
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Do you feel unreasonably irritable and angry when you can't get online?
The Sun
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Revolution is alleged, and most unreasonably alleged, to have alienated him from liberalism: 'it is a very great mistake to imagine that mankind follow up practically any speculative principle, either of government or of freedom, as far as it will go in argument and logical illation.
On Compromise
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He pronounced a decree of declarator that, in removing the petitioner's accreditation, the respondents had acted unreasonably and a decree of reduction of the respondent's decision of 13 th December 2002 to withdraw the accreditation.
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Do you feel unreasonably irritable and angry when you can't get online?
The Sun
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The penalty for the revoke is the most severe in Auction, many think it unreasonably so, and a player is unquestionably entitled to every protection the law affords him.
Auction of To-day
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We live in Georgia where it gets unreasonably hot in the summers....need less to say my story involves, lightening, a burned out transformer, an air conditioner crame and 98 degree heat.
Cramer - French Word-A-Day
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She liked the way she had not openly offered reconciliation yet had managed to imply that forgiveness would not be unreasonably withheld.
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The subsidy junkie label was not unreasonably applied to many farmers.
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In the final section of today's masterpiece on 'dirty shipping industry', he lays out approvingly what the dictatorial, self-important, unrepresentative 'greenie' lobby groups demand of shipping; Harrabin says that shipping industry is unreasonably doing what the greenies and and 'scientists' don't want, QED, shipping industry is bad.
OPEN THREAD
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Its effect is to confine any exceptions to certain special cases provided such excepted use does not conflict with a normal exploitation of the work and does not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the author.
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He took the day off, not unreasonably claiming that he needed the time to re-cover from all the travel.
WITHOUT REMORSE
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When it was first brought in by the then Home Secretary, and now Leader of the Opposition, Michael Howard, a dozen years ago, it was not unreasonably piloted in the crime black spots, namely the inner cities.
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The two actors may be unreasonably good looking, but they capture perfectly the regrets and emotional awakenings that rise to the surface as surely as the more literal monsters that lurk in bottomless oceans.
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To argue we should be allowed to act unreasonably is entirely muddle-headed and morally wrong.
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Film geeks are unreasonably excited that the movie uses three aspect ratios, including academy and widescreen.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am unreasonably excited that King Arthur Flour is coming out with an unbleached cake flour.
A New Kind Of Cake Flour
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The Amercan says that she knows she pays her staff too much relative to Oaxacan salaries but, when she stops to think about what "overpaying" enables her to do, and how her business fares, acknowledges that perhaps she is not being unreasonably generous with her staff.
Case study from Oaxaca, Mexico: Am I paying my staff too much?
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There is also the problem of having both a preverbal adverb ‘unreasonably’ and a post-verbal adverbial ‘in error’.
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Indeed if a plaintiff delays his action unreasonably he may not even get his 2 percent.
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CHAPTER Seventeen EMERSON was unreasonably annoyed with me for what he called my unwarranted interference.
The Curse of the Pharaohs
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Karpov probably saw White's following sacrifice but believed, not unreasonably, that he could defend against it.
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It was an almost unreasonably handsome face, the sharp chiseled cheekbones and slightly aquiline nose lending it an air of aristocracy she had not expected to find in a small Virginia town in the middle of nowhere.
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She'd let him do that, then on the next date had unreasonably withheld the favour.
STONE CITY
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We unreasonably expect near perfect behaviour from our children.
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she reacted unreasonably when she learned she had failed
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That assumes - unfairly and unreasonably - that the patrons of the libraries are quite imperceptive and lacking in judgment.
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When we come to declaring opinions that are, however foolishly and unreasonably, associated with pain and even a kind of turpitude in the minds of those who strongly object to them, then some of our most powerful sympathies are naturally engaged.
On Compromise
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Consent will not be unreasonably withheld.
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On the internet today, just as in Grey's time, too many images make a reference unreasonably bulky and expensive to produce.
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The latter usage has been unreasonably derided, because it is a sentential adverb and it is a new meaning for an old word.
2010 March « Motivated Grammar
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The evil geniuses* at Wicked Lasers have weaponized a laser for the consumer market by simply (?) rejiggering an unreasonably-powerful blue laser diode from a home theater projector and placing it in a lightsaber casing.
No Way This Can Go Wrong: An Affordable, Real-Life Lightsaber
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The fact is that his temper was so amiable and conciliatory, his conduct so rational, never urging impossibilities, or even things unreasonably inconvenient to them, in short so moderate and attentive to their difficulties, as well as our own, that what his enemies called subserviency I saw was only that reasonable disposition which, sensible that advantages are not all to be on one side, yielding what is just and liberal, is the more certain of obtaining liberality and justice.
Benjamin Franklin
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Prussia, desiring, not unreasonably, to take that place in the world which France now holds, will never challenge France; if she did, she would be too much in the wrong to find a second: Prussia knowing that she has to do with the vainest, the most conceited, the rashest antagonist that ever flourished a rapier in the face of a spadassin -- Prussia will make France challenge her.
The Parisians — Complete