unjustified
Example Sentences
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“Shifting wildfire costs to local governments is unjustified when utilities continue to generate significant profits and return billions to shareholders,” the association said in a brief recently sent to lawmakers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Several of the affected trading partners have expressed disappointment over the new tariffs, with Brazil and Japan's governments separately calling the measures "unjustified".
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
The EU has said that it considers tariffs imposed on these grounds "unjustified."
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
The vast majority of accused parents will be vindicated, but only after a stressful, unjustified process.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
Plenty of law enforcement personnel would’ve done exactly that and not been unjustified in so doing.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
Vocabulary lists containing unjustified
John F. Kennedy's Address to the American People on the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
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100 SAT Words Beginning with "U"
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Korematsu v. United States (1944)
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