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The word 'unwarranted' is correct and commonly used in written English
It can be used to express something that is not justified or without a valid reason. Example: The teacher's harsh punishment for the small mistake was unwarranted and caused the student to feel unfairly treated. In this sentence, 'unwarranted' is used to describe the punishment as excessive or unjustified. It suggests that the punishment was not necessary or reasonable for the mistake made by the student.
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Unwarranted
adjective
Not warranted; being without warrant, authority, or guaranty; unwarrantable.
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These cuts are unwarranted, short-sighted, and come on top of years of tight budgets in the public sector.
The newspaper group has since set up a £12m compensation fund for hacking victims and last month printed an apology in its three papers for "an unwarranted and unacceptable intrusion into people's private lives".
Erdos said that data protection can cover "simply privacy intrusion" and that on that basis it might be necessary to consider that notifying sites, which might then retaliate by putting up new content about people, "would cause them unwarranted damage and/or distress".
While a strong GDP number on Wednesday may prompt warnings that the ECB's quantitative easing is unwarranted, or at least too large, economists note there are plenty more clouds on the eurozone horizon.
Neither would it name any inspection that had initially been found to be flawed, saying to do so would "place unwarranted uncertainty" on the validity of the final verdict in such cases.
A senior Labour MP I spoke to during the Eastleigh ballot said that making benefits dependant on contributions would allow Britain to curb unwarranted demands on the hard-pressed state in the same way that other EU states manage.
It's difficult to say that perception is unwarranted.
Dermot Murnaghan will eschew a black tie in the lead role for Sky News; producers decided he should be "soberly dressed" but a black tie was unwarranted because the ceremony is not a state funeral.
Moreover, Congress has at its disposal other, more powerful constitutionally specified remedies for unwarranted executive tinkering: lawmakers may pass a new law, withhold the funding necessary for implementation, or impeach the president.Is the lawsuit then "political theatre", as many contend?
It subjects Bolivian cargo to unwarranted inspections, for example.
Until now, Japan has had formal security ties only with America, under whose protection Japan, with a pacifist constitution, has sat since the second world war.Even if it falls well short of a mutual-defence treaty, to some Australians the agreement signed by John Howard in Tokyo on March 13th is unwarranted.
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