contrary to reason
Example Sentences
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The natural human appetite for rich and sugary foods is thereby derided as not only contrary to reason but also something to be tamed, shunned, even shamed.
From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2022
In the one case, the thing would be above reason, and in the other, contrary to reason.
From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Albert Taylor Bledsoe
Again, things are reported as facts that are not so much contrary to reason as contrary to all experience, and with these, too, I have my difficulties.
From Ways of Nature by John Burroughs
Voluntarily to cross the kindly boundary was contrary to reason.
From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Elizabeth Robins
But when I apply the intellectual test to the superstructure of any Church, there are innumerable doctrines which appear to me to be contrary to reason.
From Beside Still Waters by Arthur Christopher Benson
