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unsoundness

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un·sound  (n-sound)
adj. un·sound·er, un·sound·est
1. Not dependably strong or solid.
2. Not physically or mentally healthy.
3. Not true or logically valid; fallacious: an unsound conclusion.

un·soundly adv.
un·soundness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.unsoundnessunsoundness - a condition of damage or decay
condition, status - a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"
disrepair - in need of repairs
decay - an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying; "the corpse was in an advanced state of decay"; "the house had fallen into a serious state of decay and disrepair"
soundness - a state or condition free from damage or decay
2.unsoundness - a misconception that is fallacious and not true or valid; "the unsoundness of his conclusion was obvious"
misconception - an incorrect conception
3.unsoundness - not mentally or physically healthy; "no one can be a poet without a certain unsoundness of mind"
bad, badness - that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; "take the bad with the good"
firmness, soundness - the muscle tone of healthy tissue; "his muscular firmness"
wiseness, soundness, wisdom - the quality of being prudent and sensible

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Long strings of young horses out of the country, fresh from the marshes; and droves of shaggy little Welsh ponies, no higher than Merrylegs; and hundreds of cart horses of all sorts, some of them with their long tails braided up and tied with scarlet cord; and a good many like myself, handsome and high-bred, but fallen into the middle class, through some accident or blemish, unsoundness of wind, or some other complaint.
Luke Britton could not make a remark, even on the weather, but Martin Poyser detected in it a taint of that unsoundness and general ignorance which was palpable in all his farming operations.
Bulstrode felt that his mode of talking about Catholic countries, as if there were any truce with Antichrist, illustrated the usual tendency to unsoundness in intellectual men.
 
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