UNCONSTITUTIONAL Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

unconstitutional

adjective

Definition of unconstitutional

as in unjust

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Recent Examples of unconstitutional First Amendment experts have previously told USA TODAY that the FCC has limited power to revoke broadcast licenses and doing so over a network’s editorial decision-making would be unconstitutional. — Brieanna J. Frank, USA Today, 28 July 2026 Citizens who live outside of Colorado do not qualify for in-state tuition, and that makes offering the rates to undocumented students unconstitutional, the DOJ argued. — Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 23 July 2026 When officers unnecessarily kill them, taxpayers often end up paying for unconstitutional conduct. — Vanessa Shakib, Oc Register, 23 July 2026 Lambda Legal, an LGBTQ legal advocacy organization, sued on behalf of a handful of students, claiming the measure was unconstitutional and asking a judge to block it. — Jo Yurcaba, NBC news, 18 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for unconstitutional

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This week wasn’t a total loss for SerpApi and Perplexity AI, which did manage to get Reddit’s unjust enrichment and unfair competition claims tossed, since they were both preempted by the Copyright Act.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 31 July 2026
In confronting the army of the second Umayyad ruler of the dynasty, Husayn opposed a rule viewed as unjust and un-Islamic.

— Iqbal Akhtar, The Conversation, 31 July 2026

Definition of unjust

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If found not guilty due to a lack of criminal responsibility, she would be committed to a state mental health facility.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
Police identified the suspect as 21-year-old Saleem Martin, who has been charged with kidnapping, theft by taking, simple battery, entering an automobile, cruelty to children and criminal attempt to commit a felony.

— Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of criminal

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The league reprimanded the Aces for impermissible player benefits in 2023, docking Las Vegas a 2025 first-round draft pick, so stripping more draft capital as a punishment would not have been unprecedented.

— Sabreena Merchant, New York Times, 26 July 2026
The following year, after transferring to West Virginia, Kriisa would face a nine-game suspension for violating NCAA rules governing impermissible benefits while with the Wildcats.

— Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 6 July 2026

Definition of impermissible

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Nearly three years after Ebony Duncan vanished after leaving work in Independence, a Jackson County jury has found her former boyfriend guilty of second-degree murder.

— Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 22 July 2026
Matar has pleaded not guilty to federal charges that include engaging in an act of transnational terrorism.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 July 2026

Definition of guilty

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The department said the detectives who reported the affair violated three policies for conducting an unauthorized investigation and their use of Flock.

— Kelsy Mittauer, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2026
Anthropic said a misconfiguration allowed Claude models to reach the internet from testing environments that were supposed to be isolated, leading to unauthorized access to three organizations’ systems.

— Reuters, NBC news, 31 July 2026

Definition of unauthorized

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Some rabbinic readings attribute Lot’s hesitation to leave Sodom to his immoral greed and inordinate wealth.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 July 2026
Court records show that 60-year-old Bradley Kyle Martin, of Dearborn Heights, is charged with using a computer or internet to communicate with another person to commit a crime and accosting children for immoral purposes.

— DeJanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 25 June 2026

Definition of immoral

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Last November, both TMZ and CBS News reported alleged infractions, including being caught with homemade alcohol and trying to make a forbidden three-way phone call.

— Cheyenne Roundtree, VIBE.com, 24 July 2026
More recently, mathematicians have been able to adapt Erdős’ method to get better estimates of Ramsey numbers where the forbidden cliques differ vastly in size.

— Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 26 June 2026

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