How to Use unmitigated in a Sentence

unmitigated

adjective
  • This is an unmitigated good (and one that is a moral imperative to extend to the rest of the world).
    Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2021
  • Thus far, this petro-pivot to the East has been an unmitigated success.
    Stephen Lezak, The New Republic, 12 July 2022
  • And today, Hunter has the unmitigated gall to pull a stunt in committee.
    Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 10 Jan. 2024
  • These were kids, giggling at the unmitigated joy baseball brings to our youth.
    Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Cars that are sitting at the side of a freeway or highway are an unmitigated hazard to all.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 26 May 2021
  • With Young Thug, that feels like an insult to all the unmitigated brilliance that came before.
    Chris Richards, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Trying to get as many people out of the area, in less time, would be an unmitigated disaster.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 1 Sep. 2020
  • The introduction of the House bill was not met with unmitigated joy from the senators who had signed onto their own version of the bill.
    Grace Segers, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Going back to mid-July, the #1 Netflix movie in the world every week since then has been an unmitigated flop with critics.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The nadir, of course, was that unmitigated disaster in 2014.
    Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 27 Nov. 2020
  • Steele gave me a quick look and a nod, his eyes reflecting surprise, relief and unmitigated joy.
    Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 14 June 2022
  • Four American gals have the unmitigated Gaul to seek romance in the City of Light in this new unscripted series.
    Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2023
  • There aren’t many who would pour their hearts out in an unmitigated love serenade to the forebear of all brassicas.
    Yotam Ottolenghi, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • But the pure viciousness and grotesquery of his acts had already cast him as an unmitigated monster in the public eye.
    Paul Schrodt, Men's Health, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Swift's re-recordings project has thus far proven to be an unmitigated triumph.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Still, there’s a method to the series’ unmitigated mayhem.
    Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 5 June 2020
  • Denver My state witnessed an unmitigated tragedy on Nov. 19 when a gunman opened fire in a gay club in Colorado Springs, killing five and wounding 25.
    Samuel J. Aquila, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2022
  • There’s a consensus these days that the war was close to an unmitigated catastrophe.
    Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 14 Mar. 2021
  • His good vibes are the cherry on top of the on-field impact that’s made his surprising signing an unmitigated success.
    Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2021
  • His 2020 season in Philadelphia was an unmitigated disaster, to the point that the Eagles pulled the plug and shipped him off to Indy.
    BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2021
  • Think of the unmitigated flow of plastic into the environment as a stream.
    WIRED, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Largely considered to be an unmitigated disaster at the time, the film is now a cult classic.
    Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2023
  • What Pap sees as an evil, Juicy understands as an unmitigated good.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
  • My point, obviously, is not to compare the travails of the virus, however real and grim, to the unmitigated horrors of the Holocaust.
    Daphne Merkin, The New York Review of Books, 20 May 2020
  • That might be due, in part, to the city's harsh exposure to the effects of the virus after Mardi Gras, when unmitigated spread left New Orleans with one of the highest infection and death rates in the country.
    Jeff Adelson, NOLA.com, 15 Dec. 2020
  • And in the end, the Raiders’ first season in Las Vegas with fans in attendance turns into an unmitigated disaster.
    Vincent Frank, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Amazon’s last Prime Day earlier this month ended up as an unmitigated win for the company in terms of sales.
    Tristan Bove, Fortune, 28 July 2022
  • Prison, even at its best, doesn’t feel tolerable—this unmitigated prison feels less so.
    Arthur Longworth, The New York Review of Books, 12 Apr. 2020
  • To go in there and to displace them again and start a major military campaign would be an unmitigated disaster.
    CBS News, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Here, in an era when so much of the internet is unstable or controversial or just plain bleak, was a moment of good, clean, unmitigated fun.
    Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2022

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'unmitigated.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: