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US
/ənˌɹɛpɹɪˈzɛntətɪv/
]
[ UK /ˌʌnɹˌɛpɹɪzˈɛntətˌɪv/ ]
[ UK /ˌʌnɹˌɛpɹɪzˈɛntətˌɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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not exemplifying a class
I soon tumbled to the fact that my weekends were atypical
behavior quite unrepresentative (or atypical) of the profession
How To Use unrepresentative In A Sentence
- Worse, this ineffectual debating society is wholly unrepresentative.
- It would be easy, but wrong, to dismiss Zhura as an unrepresentative crackpot whose defence of Stalin says little about contemporary Russian opinion.
- Whether it's the composition of the major parties, or the courts, or the federal bureaucracy, our institutions are unrepresentative.
- Cronin and Magdalinski want an alternative to the current political process, which they view as unrepresentative of real-world needs.
- Moreover, the armed forces are increasingly unrepresentative of the society they serve.
- Why, then, were we shown rather unrepresentative scenes of predominantly female ecstatics?
- A body as unrepresentative as the United States Senate should not be confirming lifetime appointments, especially by simple majority vote.
- In particular, I am shocked by the following entry, which seems to be supporting the right of a small unelected and I believe unrepresentative group to "authorise" or not the translation of a work into their language: On a top ten of endangered languages
- Popular opinion (or some unrepresentative poll) can never be a basis for decisions in a democracy.
- Confrontation at the University of the Witwatersrand, the administration of which it described as intransigent, highlighted the need for undemocratic and unrepresentative councils to disband and for transformation forums to be established. ANC Daily News Briefing