Synonyms for unjustified
un·jus·ti·fied

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1. unjustifiedadjective

   Antonyms:
   justified

2. unjustifiedadjective

   Antonyms:
   justified

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1. undue, unjustified, unwarrantedadjective

   lacking justification or authorization

   "desire for undue private profit"; "unwarranted limitations of personal freedom"

   Synonyms:
   unjustifiable, excessive, groundless, unwarrantable, baseless, inordinate, unreasonable, wild, indefensible, insupportable, undue, unwarranted, idle, unfounded

   Antonyms:
   sensible, reasonable

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1. List of paraphrases for "unjustified":

   unwarranted, unjustifiable, unfounded, undue, unreasonable, unjust, groundless, unprovoked, unfair, unsubstantiated, wrongful, wanton, justified, unnecessary, gratuitous, baseless

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1. Seth Stoughton:

   When we see officers killing a person of color, it doesn't just raise the anger of a potentially unjustified killing. It raises the anger of another potentially unjustified killing involving this troubling, repetitive racial dynamic.

2. Dejan Stojanovic:

   If unjustified, ambition kills value, eats its own life, kills someone else's desire to fly, cuts their wings, sucks their air.

3. Franklin D. Roosevelt:

   First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

4. Defence Secretary Michael Fallon:

   The principle threat to the Islands remains the quite unjustified claim of Argentina to ownership.

5. Richard Milhous Nixon:

   The only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.