Sentence examples for irrationally from inspiring English sources

The word 'irrationally' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone making decisions without considering the facts. For example: "He acted irrationally when investing his money, and that led to financial troubles."

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irrationally

adverb

In an irrational manner; without reason; in a manner contrary to reason; absurdly.

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This is not the irrationalism of Nietzsche or Freud, for whom much of human behaviour is irrationally driven, but rather, a non-rationalist standpoint.

Most Middle Eastern and European old towns, with their charming, irrationally narrow streets and small buildings are homegrown.

One of the nastiest years for bond investors in history was 1994, when the Federal Reserve started to tighten monetary policy.PIMCO's Bill Gross, probably the best known bond manager in the world, said in his latest outlook that: "Corporate credit and high-yield bonds are somewhat exuberantly and irrationally priced.

There is also evidence that losses can make investors extremely, irrationally risk-averse exaggerating prisk-averse exaggerating bursts.Behavioural economists were among the first to sound the alarm about trouble in the markets.

Somehow the Western world is more than willing to impose irrationally high ethical standards on Western nations while failing to call to task those who would use women and children as targets or shields".

The most obvious is the financiers themselves especially the irrationally exuberant Anglo-Saxon sort, who claimed to have found a way to banish risk when in fact they had simply lost track of it.

The recent revival in merger activity has coincided, worryingly, with the return of share prices to levels that some think irrationally exuberant.Other recent studies suggest that, the big disasters of 1998-2001 aside, the value created by merger activity may actually have been underestimated by economists.

RATIONAL-market theories have their detractors, in part because they necessarily simplify the financial world and ignore investors' manifest tendency to act irrationally.

The American guards, male and female, appeared irrationally scared of their prisoners and even more scared of those who were ordering them to make the captives' lives hell.

Irrationally, electric-vehicle fires are perceived as somehow more worrisome simply because they are new.

They then make choices about things in one particular mental compartment without taking account of the implications for things in other compartments.There is also a huge amount of evidence that people are persistently, and irrationally, over-confident.

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