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Word entry · 12 letters

unreasonably

Best crossword clue

"Beyond fair limits"

12 letters · collected on this word page

12 lettersPronunciation /ʌnˈɹiː.zən.ə.bli/Part of speech adverbSorted aabelnnorsuyStarts with UEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. to a degree that exceeds the bounds of reason or moderation

Word origin

From Middle English unresonably, equivalent to unreasonable + -ly, after resonably (whence reasonably) and (originally) Late Latin irratiōnābiliter.

Used in a sentence

  • He behaved unreasonably.
  • Fye, you confine your ſelfe moſt vnreaſonably: Come, you muſt go viſit the good Lady that lies in.
  • Until then, the Sunak administration remains a study in ineffectuality on multiple fronts, leading Goldsmith to cite, not unreasonably, “a kind of paralysis”.

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