unproven

How to use unproven in a sentence

Is it scientific to accept as true an unproven theory and make it the basis of all belief?

In short, so far from being a great universal philosophy, it is simply a disjointed combination of unproven theories.

It is a fine old tree, and it is not improbable—though it is unproven—that it dates back to the first settlement of Natick.

The evidence that antimony was really there was not satisfactory, and that twenty grains were in the stomach wholly unproven.

To entrust a confidence to one of unproven sympathy, is to risk a profitless embarrassment.

Your unproven statements are highly improper in their innuendo of collusion by an officer of this court.

THE TEMPERINGCHARLES NEVILLE BUCK

But granting all these unproven variations, no instance is alleged of a dog ever becoming a cat or a lion by any care or culture.

What I saw through that ultramicroscope was not an unproven theory, but a fact.

The vault, however, did not lead further, so that the tradition remained unproven.

When we turn from abstract arguments to facts, the doctrine of necessity is unquestionably unproven.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985