Sentence examples for uncalled from inspiring English sources

The word "uncalled" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it as an adjective to describe something that is not needed, unwanted, or has not been invited or requested. For example, "My presence at the party was uncalled for."

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uncalled

adjective

Not called

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Clive Palmer said a new election was "not uncalled for" because the budget was "a disaster for Australians" containing measures that were "heartless and cruel".

I understand that I was opening myself up to judgement, but death threats are uncalled for".

Norm Coleman, the Republican, is leading the Democrat Al Franken by 571 votes; the Associated Press had called it for Mr Coleman, but it is now uncalled.

I can't think of a single other country in the world where you make references to any political party on a continuous basis with this kind of qualification as if the reference is part of the party's name.I believe that this kind of attribute that is so gratuitously granted is uncalled for, condescending, patronizing disdainful, or at a limit straight insulting.

Mrs Palin endorsed 60 candidates around the country; as of now, with a handful of races still uncalled, slightly fewer than half of them won.

This is more expensive than normal delivery but it also takes longer to recover from, can cause infection and other complications, and is agreed to be uncalled for in at least 50% of cases.

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Mr Abe has in the past month caught himself up in an uncalled-for furore by refusing to admit that the Japanese imperial army coerced Korean, Chinese and other women to work in brothels in the second world war.

It makes stirring sense for Kippenberger, a paladin of uncalled-for gestures, to identify with the disconcertingly upbeat "Amerika," so at odds with Kafka's signature tales of dread.

Before its removal, and after several failed attempts, the California Department of Transportation insisted that the alarm caused by the rock was uncalled-for - that the rock would have stayed in place for another hundred years.

The show surrounding his dramatically uncalled-for flowers argues to the contrary.

On Night 2, Mr. Kristof and Ms. Lane journey to Somaliland for a segment on female genital cutting, a traditional practice that Edna Adan, founder of a maternity hospital, calls "painful, unwanted, undesirable and uncalled-for".

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