unscientific

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Recent Examples of unscientific These results are unscientific and subject to change, of course. Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025 Granted, people’s memories can get a little hazy at times, but here’s an unscientific sample of what some other metro music fans hold dearest about Memorial Hall. Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2025 Net-zero always was a farcical, unscientific and unrealistic dogma designed to reorder societies and increase government and bureaucratic control over the economy, with ever-diminishing freedom for individuals. Peter Murphy, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2025 The Baltimore Sun reader poll is an unscientific survey in which website users volunteer their opinions on the subject of the poll. Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 18 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unscientific
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unscientific
Adjective
  • The film had transformed from the messy, illogical version I’d first seen into a hilarious, shrewd, contemplative work of art.
    Susan Orlean, New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The composition has many hallmarks of surrealism, including dream logic – the strange, flowing and often illogical progression of images reflecting the unpredictable nature of dreams – metamorphosis and psychic ambiguity.
    Sally Jane Brown, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • This would be an absurd show of force, and totally uncalled for during a government shutdown when members of the military cannot even get a paycheck.
    Washington Examiner Staff, The Washington Examiner, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Knightley and Pearce coast and their characters never come alive and resort to doing silly things at this misfire’s absurd, regrettable finale.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Poetry brings hope, not an irrational optimism or wishful thinking, but a positive orientation to the future, of what a better, healthier future would look like.
    K.J.S. “Sunny” Anand, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Marks believes that investor optimism doesn’t automatically signal irrational exuberance.
    Yun Li, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • This is still a Tron movie, however, beholden to a mythology that is ridiculously complicated at best and WTF-nonsensical at worst.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Though the two actors have a kind of slacker ease in the nonsensical volleys, this lower temperature approach too often misses the work’s humor, horror and emotional resonance.
    Frank Rizzo, Variety, 29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The fatuous Fed/1930s narrative raises a basic question: why are successful investors paid so well?
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
  • So although these actions may seem fatuous on the surface, the next four years will be about looking for the undercurrents.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The Brewers benefited from a preposterous double play in the fourth inning, when outfielder Sal Frelick bobbled a ball off the center-field wall, but managed to start a relay for a forceout at home and another at third.
    Andy McCullough, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2025
  • And another preposterous Travis Kelce outburst toward Reid — who was having none of it this time, even leaning into the oncoming Kelce.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But, God, to be able to play a Pablo Escobar who was just petty and wanted friends, there was something so stupid and so hilarious about that to me.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Keaton continued to play oddballs with a peculiar way of talking, though none were trivial or stupid.
    Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Many of our technologies are built on the not-unreasonable assumption that openness is good, and that more common knowledge is better.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Each side of the issue argues that the other is unreasonable and operating in bad faith.
    Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 9 Oct. 2025

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“Unscientific.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unscientific. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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