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unsound English

Meaning unsound meaning

What does unsound mean?

unsound

not sound financially unsound banking practices not in good condition; damaged or decayed an unsound foundation of e.g. advice (= fallacious) containing or based on a fallacy fallacious reasoning an unsound argument suffering from severe mental illness of unsound mind (= bad) physically unsound or diseased has a bad back a bad heart bad teeth an unsound limb unsound teeth

Synonyms unsound synonyms

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Movie subtitles

Poor devil of unsound mind. I'll wait till he's sound enough to remember his own name.
Are you ready to sign a formal complaint that he's mentally unsound?
There ain't a broke or unsound bone in his body.
They were of unsound mind, Sir.
That wood behind us is unsound.
From what I hear, it is clear that he is of unsound mind.
And after that his. ideas, methods. became. unsound.
Unsound.
They told me. that you had gone. totally insane. and that your methods. were unsound.
Are my methods unsound?
But of unsound mind, in the care of a strong male nurse.
The more politically unsound students call her that, yes.
It's ecologically unsound.
Reconstruction was unsound and totally impractical.
My dear boy, your thinking is not only fuzzy, it's economically unsound.
I told you it was economically unsound.
And after that, his ideas, methods, became unsound.
And if he'd pulled over, it all would have been forgotten..unsound.
They told me that you had gone totally insane, and that your methods were unsound.
And I'm not of unsound mind or anything.
It is economically unsound to grow up.
Just what scientific principles do you think are unsound?
The way you figured. I told you it was economically unsound.
Cutting was begun among the oaks of 1910 but they were so far from transportation routes that the whole enterprise proved financially unsound.
You're ecologically unsound. - Bollocks!

News and current affairs

Meanwhile, the financial sector was thoroughly compromised by the spread of unsound financial instruments and poor lending practices.
In the United States, individual states that follow unsound fiscal policies face a penalty.
Before 2007, there was little political interest in tougher global standards, and individual countries resisted the idea that an international body might interfere in their sovereign right to oversee an unsound banking system.
Today's political turbulence, indeed, has the same roots as yesterday's financial storms: inadequate, unsound, and unformed institutions.
Commercial banks, flush with central banks' money, advanced credit for many unsound investment projects, with the explosion of financial innovation (particularly of derivative instruments) fueling the lending frenzy.
Credit expansion must now be followed by a period of contraction, because some of the new credit instruments and practices are unsound and unsustainable.
They didn't claim that what he said was inaccurate, or shortsighted, or analytically unsound.
The internet bust, when it finally came, was caused not by an unsound business model, but by over-extension of credit.
There is nothing wrong with imposing market discipline on countries that follow unsound policies, but the risk-reward ratio for lending and investing has shifted too far against the periphery.
But a chronic current account deficit is unsound, unfair, and unsustainable in the long run.
Unfortunately, Germany has some unsound ideas about macroeconomic policy: it wants the rest of Europe to follow its example.

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