Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an unqualified manner; without qualification; absolutely.

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  • adverb In an unqualified manner.

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  • adverb without qualification or limitation

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Examples

  • “blogosphere,” which is yet another term unqualifiedly in need of a definition by a professional thinker, exemplifies the way that the community of webloggers, even if nondescript, unimpressive, and intellectually-challenged when considered individually, can effectively assemble, cast, and recast information in a way that mimics a giant machine or market, even creating new words where no others would suitably do.

    Blogs/Blawgs 2005

  • It's a brief but appealingly off-kilter concoction, not even two minutes long, with an upbeat tune that might be described as unqualifiedly "sunny" were it not for its strangely abbreviated hook, brief but jarring descent into noise in the bridge, and an eerie chorus that lingers long after the song has run its course.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • It's a brief but appealingly off-kilter concoction, not even two minutes long, with an upbeat tune that might be described as unqualifiedly "sunny" were it not for its strangely abbreviated hook, brief but jarring descent into noise in the bridge, and an eerie chorus that lingers long after the song has run its course.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • “blogosphere,” which is yet another term unqualifiedly in need of a definition by a professional thinker, exemplifies the way that the community of webloggers, even if nondescript, unimpressive, and intellectually-challenged when considered individually, can effectively assemble, cast, and recast information in a way that mimics a giant machine or market, even creating new words where no others would suitably do.

    Blogs/Blawgs 2005

  • But, to repeat, when you have the likes of Obama and Reid defending the thing unqualifiedly, that isn’t going to happen.

    Matthew Yglesias » Harkin Reintroduces Filibuster Reform 2010

  • I know this because any other claim cannot possibly qualify as knowledge, unqualifiedly undermines the very possibility of its own coherence, and instantaneously reduces itself to something that is substantially less valuable than barnyard noises.

    Think Progress » Clinton: Media, Politicians Shouldn’t Fuel ‘Hatriot’ Groups With Anti-Government Rhetoric That Inspired McVeigh 2010

  • Gerecht defines "moderate" in his own words as "a believer who unqualifiedly rejects terrorism against anyone."

    Philip Smucker: Beck and Gerecht Call for Spanish Inquisition, American-style 2010

  • Gerecht defines "moderate" in his own words as "a believer who unqualifiedly rejects terrorism against anyone."

    Philip Smucker: Beck and Gerecht Call for Spanish Inquisition, American-style 2010

  • There do not seem to be any politicians left -- on any side, Hamas and Kahane people included -- who truly believe that their own ideology would really, truly, unqualifiedly work here.

    Handicapping Mideast War and Peace 2010: Picking Your Dead Horse 2010

  • There do not seem to be any politicians left -- on any side, Hamas and Kahane people included -- who truly believe that their own ideology would really, truly, unqualifiedly work here.

    Bradley Burston: Handicapping Mideast War and Peace 2010: Picking Your Dead Horse 2010

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