unwarranted

Etymology

From un- + warranted.

adj

  1. Not warranted; being without warrant, authority, or guaranty; unwarrantable.
  2. Unjustified, inappropriate or undeserved.
    The attack was so unwarranted and delivered with such venom that his unpreparedness for it left him speechless. 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 62
    The dictionaries themselves cover this additional lexis in what can best be described as a piecemeal fashion, with an obvious but unwarranted bias towards colonial era lexis. 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 312
    This strike action by the RMT is completely unwarranted and unjustified. September 22 2021, “Network News: Union threatens to escalate Class 360s dispute with EMR”, in RAIL, number 940, page 23

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