Unreasonably dictionary definition | unreasonably defined

unreasonably

Adverb

(comparative more unreasonably, superlative most unreasonably)

In an unreasonable manner.
He behaved unreasonably.
Of or relating to something that is unreasonable.
The team was given an unreasonably short amount of time to put together a presentation.

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B Stade not unreasonably questions whether 2 Kings xii.
There will still be room for the scientific use of the imagination and for the creative flashes of genius.3 If, then, Bacon himself made no contributions to science, if no discovery can be shown to be due to the use of his rules, if his method be logically defective, and the problem to which it was applied one from its nature incapable of adequate solution, it may not unreasonably be asked, How has he come to be looked upon as the great leader in the reformation of modern science?
So, too, with the attempt to show that from the analogy of the present life we may not unreasonably infer that virtue and vice will receive their respective rewards and punishments hereafter; it may be admitted that virtuous and vicious acts are naturally looked upon as objects of reward or punishment, and treated accordingly, but we may refuse to allow the argument to go further, and to infer a perfect distribution of justice dependent upon our conduct here.
By his interpreters it was transformed into a theory of one soul common to all mankind, and when thus corrupted conflicted not unreasonably with the doctrines of a future life, common to Islam and Christendom.
He made haste to finish buying the horses, and often became unreasonably angry with his servant and squadron quartermaster.

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