Thesaurus / unreasonableness
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
It alleges OSHA’s decision not to set safety standards about infectious diseases is “unreasonable and unlawful” and a violation of federal law that requires the agency to issue standards for significant health risks.
HEALTH-CARE WORKERS FILE LAWSUIT AGAINST OSHA, ACCUSING AGENCY OF FAILING TO KEEP THEM SAFEELI ROSENBERGOCTOBER 29, 2020WASHINGTON POST
In its suit, Walmart said it has a robust system for monitoring opioid prescriptions and federal regulators are making unreasonable demands on the chain.
WALMART SUES GOVERNMENT TO PRE-EMPT ALLEGATIONS IT HELPED FUEL OPIOID CRISISKDUNN6OCTOBER 23, 2020FORTUNE
There are few sure bets in the NFL, and we’re still just four weeks into the season, but it’s not unreasonable to predict — like we have — that the Jets season is all but over.
SCORING IS WAY UP IN THE NFL. WHICH TEAMS DOES THAT HELP?JOSH HERMSMEYEROCTOBER 9, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHT
If we do the clean energy transition in a really expensive, inefficient manner, it’s going to impose unreasonable, unbearable costs on consumers and businesses and I just don’t think it’s going to work.
INSIDE THE UTILITY COMPANY LOBBYING BLITZ THAT WILL HIKE ELECTRIC BILLSBY PATRICK WILSON, RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCHOCTOBER 9, 2020PROPUBLICA
King sued, alleging the officer’s actions violated his Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable seizure and excessive force.
7 BIG CASES THE SUPREME COURT WILL HEAR IN ITS NEW TERM, EXPLAINEDIAN MILLHISEROCTOBER 1, 2020VOX
It’s not unreasonable to think Australia will pivot in the same way.
CHINA IS INCHING TOWARD ANOTHER TRADE WAREAMONBARRETTSEPTEMBER 27, 2020FORTUNE
They’re demanding that developers are not made to pay “unfair, unreasonable, or discriminatory fees.”
SPOTIFY CEO DANIEL EK PLEDGES OVER $1 BILLION OF HIS PERSONAL WEALTH TO “MOONSHOTS”LUCINDA SHENSEPTEMBER 25, 2020FORTUNE
"If it were a matter of life and death, you could not be more obstinate," said her hostess, fretted at her unreasonableness.
ALONEMARION HARLAND
Situated as we were, we did not feel ourselves at liberty to expostulate against the obvious unreasonableness of their demands.
In fact, reasoning unreasonableness was a very frequent condition of George Sand's mind.
FREDERICK CHOPIN AS A MAN AND MUSICIANFREDERICK NIECKS
WORDS RELATED TO UNREASONABLENESS
- aberration
- absurdity
- alienation
- brainsickness
- craziness
- delirium
- delusion
- dementia
- derangement
- distraction
- disturbance
- dotage
- folly
- frenzy
- hallucination
- hysteria
- illusion
- inanity
- insaneness
- irrationality
- irresponsibility
- lunacy
- madness
- mania
- mental disorder
- mental illness
- neurosis
- phobia
- preposterousness
- psychosis
- senselessness
- unbalance
- unreasonableness
- witlessness
- absurdity
- absurdness
- bunk
- carrying-on
- claptrap
- craziness
- dumb trick
- folly
- fool trick
- foolery
- horse feathers
- idiocy
- imbecility
- impracticality
- imprudence
- inanity
- indiscretion
- insanity
- insensibility
- irrationality
- irresponsibility
- ludicrousness
- lunacy
- madness
- mistake
- nonsense
- poppycock
- preposterousness
- rubbish
- silliness
- stupidity
- tomfoolery
- tommyrot
- twaddle
- unreasonableness
- unwiseness
- weakness
- witlessness
- zaniness
- absurdity
- amenity
- dissipation
- exaggeration
- excess
- exorbitance
- expenditure
- extravagancy
- folly
- frill
- icing on the cake
- immoderation
- improvidence
- lavishness
- luxury
- outrageousness
- overdoing
- overindulgence
- overspending
- preposterousness
- prodigality
- profligacy
- profuseness
- profusion
- recklessness
- squander
- squandering
- superfluity
- unreasonableness
- unrestraint
- unthrift
- waste
- wildness
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.