How to Use unscientific in a Sentence

unscientific

adjective
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  • I conducted an unscientific survey.
  • The best day for a rage hike, in my very unscientific opinion, is a Tuesday.
    — Kelcie Pegher, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • My unscientific guess is that the spread has gotten much wider since then.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 25 July 2023
  • Gibbs said just based on the unscientific nature of measuring the stripes alone, the folklore isn't true.
    — Lilly St. Angelo, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Each dot on the graphic below shows an unscientific census of ships large enough to see from space.
    — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2021
  • With the outbreak of Covid-19 in Iran, rumors and unscientific treatments on how to fight the virus have spread on social media.
    — Somayeh Malekian, ABC News, 9 Mar. 2020
  • And judging by a very unscientific scan of a few online stores, coconut aminos seems to be a bit pricier.
    — Lisa Bain, Good Housekeeping, 20 July 2020
  • The newsletter did a poll, unscientific of course, that showed that 76% of those voting think the course should be greenlighted.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2019
  • That gives us a very unscientific one through four for Detroit sports in early 2020.
    — Jamie Samuelsen, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2020
  • The poll, while unscientific, backs support the team has insisted exists for as long as the team name has been a part of public discourse.
    — Michael McCleary, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Sep. 2020
  • This isn't the first time Santelli has come under fire for his unscientific statements about the virus.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 4 Dec. 2020
  • The weather: In a very unscientific poll conducted on the grounds, all 11 people agreed that the weather at this year’s fest was the best in its history.
    — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 1 Aug. 2022
  • So let’s roll out an imperfect list of Petco Park’s top 5 big flies, culled from a highly unscientific skip through the ether.
    — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 3 July 2019
  • That comment about the process being unscientific is not a criticism of the Times Book Review.
    — John Warner, chicagotribune.com, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Our stories are unscientific — suspect, even — but physicians ask us to self-report our darkest moods, to rate our aches and pains on a scale from 1 to 10.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 10 Feb. 2020
  • An unscientific timing of it by NBC News placed the time of his performance right at 2 minutes and 2 seconds.
    — Rob Wile, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2023
  • According to my very unscientific polling of a dozen or so hunters across the country, most of us fall somewhere in between these two extremes.
    — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Public belief has waned in his regime, and according to an unscientific poll of my neighbors and the man who stopped me at Meijer this week, is at an all-time low.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 17 Oct. 2020
  • An unscientific survey of a handful of city playgrounds revealed an arbitrary pattern to the nets: Some courts have them, and some don’t.
    — David Waldstein, New York Times, 15 July 2021
  • The reigning best small airport in the country, at least according to an unscientific online poll by USA Today, is going for two in a row.
    — Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 23 Jan. 2021
  • The unscientific popularity of the food miles movement is a reminder that there’s just no way around it: a diet that’s kinder to the planet has to involve cutting down on meat.
    — Christine Ro, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Based on your answers to our highly unscientific questions, your palate may have matched nicely with some of these beers from history.
    — Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
  • But experts Fortune spoke with say that the theory is unscientific at best and destructive at worst.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2022
  • On his show, the host called mask-wearing unscientific, repulsive and even abusive when children are mandated to wear them.
    — Kuan-Lin F. Liu, CNN, 4 May 2021
  • There were no rules for this unscientific enterprise; our goal was simply to determine if the Spicy Ghost Pepper doughnut is a trick, a treat or something in-between.
    — Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 22 Oct. 2020
  • And somewhat to our surprise, that led us to what seemed like an extremely unscientific practice: Boning.
    — Popular Science, 20 May 2020
  • All that may be true, but what worries me most as a physician is how quickly the highest court in the land has become unscientific and medically negligent.
    — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • Instead, the scoring feature is meant to compare teams in an unscientific manner.
    — Joe Magill, cleveland, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Granted, this was a very limited and unscientific poll, but that's no insignificant amount of time.
    — Jihan Forbes, Allure, 27 Dec. 2021
  • There's only way to decide: through votes in a highly unscientific bracket.
    — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2023

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