UNSOUND


Meaning of UNSOUND in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

ecologically

It was expensive, high tech, brutal and, I don't doubt, ecologically unsound but I loved it all.

Also, many names are painted on the bottom of the routes - ecologically unsound , but convenient!

ideologically

Cassie entertained more than a suspicion that John would definitely prove to be very ideologically unsound indeed!

I would go further and suggest that it is also ideologically unsound .

■ NOUN

mind

If, then, the Member is still of unsound mind , his seat is automatically vacated.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

unsound banking practices

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Again I suggest that this line of argument is unsound .

Around 1902 the Leversons lost money through an unsound investment.

Cassie entertained more than a suspicion that John would definitely prove to be very ideologically unsound indeed!

He claimed that the site was geologically unsound and any stress caused by a shift in water levels could cause an earthquake.

If, then, the Member is still of unsound mind, his seat is automatically vacated.

In the summer of 1913 Chapman at last turned his attention to City's unsound defence.

Some attacked the fact that faster growth has been environmentally unsound , creating excessive carbon emissions and destroying natural habitats.

When they found that this was impossible, they turned their backs on religion and declared its teachings to be unsound .

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