How to Use unscientific in a Sentence

unscientific

adjective

• 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
• Through it, one views the world as if from within a cave; and the world is more spectacular and unscientific.
  — Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 21 June 2018
• 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
• All that said, these are just a bunch of unscientific studies.
  — Brian Manzullo, Detroit Free Press, 26 Dec. 2017
• 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
• Our very unscientific test of six groups of kids in pairs of twos or groups of threes did yield somewhat of a consensus on the mystery flavors.
  — Sonja Haller, azcentral, 21 Mar. 2018
• All of this seems very corny and unscientific, and when Nate dares to question it, he gets insulted and rebuffed.
  — Vulture, 21 Dec. 2023
• 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 belief that hard work trumps talent is unscientific at best and cruel at worst.
  — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2017
• 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
• That is just one measure, however (and a rather unscientific one at that).
  — Adam Epstein, Quartzy, 5 June 2019
• In our completely unscientific Twitter poll, BYU was the winner of the fan vote with 44 percent.
  — Dave Southorn, idahostatesman, 2 Nov. 2017
• As of Friday, nearly 375 people weighed in on the unscientific poll.
  — Teri Figueroa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Oct. 2017
• 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
• An unscientific 1995 survey found that two in three viewers were in favor of the swimsuit portion.
  — Kaila Philo, The New Republic, 5 June 2018
• There was no talk of space lasers causing the California wildfires or other such unscientific claims.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
• While our anonymous straw poll was informal and unscientific, the results suggest that CEOs are increasingly and broadly optimistic about the economy — in fact, much more bullish than just about any other group in the nation.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian, TIME, 23 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024