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Unreasonable

adjective

Not reasonable; not showing good judgment.

Beyond normal limits. Synonyms: excessive, inordinate, undue. "A book of inordinate length" , "His dress stops just short of undue elegance" , "Unreasonable demands"

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"Unreasonable" Quotes from Famous Books

... answered the other rather hotly. "That is really unreasonable. Emphatically the incident made no sort of difference, for the very good reason that she was not in the case, save as an innocent sufferer from the evil actions of others. She helped me rather than hindered me. Despite all she was called to ...

— The Red Redmaynes • Eden Phillpotts

... news. His father duly congratulated him, and added genially, 'It is well to be you, George. One large commission to attend to, and nothing to distract you from it. I am bothered by having a dozen irons in the fire at once. And people are so unreasonable.—Only this morning, among other things, when you got your order to go on with your single study, I received a letter from a woman, an old friend whom I can scarcely refuse, begging me as a great favour to design her a set of theatrical costumes, in which she and her friends ...

— A Laodicean • Thomas Hardy

... said, "as soon as it is light, and I shall be back before sundown the day after to-morrow. I know it is unreasonable, but I shall go easier in my mind if you will promise ...

— The Lowest Rung - Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy • Mary Cholmondeley

... unreasonable "blind faith" in remedial means is as strong in the most intelligent as in the most ignorant, and it has ever given me more trouble than the care of the sick. Another serious complication of the sick-room arises from near-by friends who are very certain that their own physicians are better fitted ...

— The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure • Edward Hooker Dewey

... Then: "Waal, I—I don't cal'late to want to be unreasonable nor nothin', but I ain't real keen about takin' no mortgage on that ...

— Thankful's Inheritance • Joseph C. Lincoln

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