How to Use unscientific in a Sentence

unscientific

adjective
  • I conducted an unscientific survey.
  • My unscientific guess is that the spread has gotten much wider since then.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 25 July 2023
  • But that’s kind of an unscientific way of getting some sense.
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 20 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • The belief that hard work trumps talent is unscientific at best and cruel at worst.
    — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2017
  • The best day for a rage hike, in my very unscientific opinion, is a Tuesday.
    — Kelcie Pegher, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • These results are unscientific and subject to change, of course.
    — Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • That brings us to our list — which is closer in line with an awards show, except one based on some guy’s very unscientific opinion.
    — Sean Gentille, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
  • That is just one measure, however (and a rather unscientific one at that).
    — Adam Epstein, Quartzy, 5 June 2019
  • 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
  • One ride made this scribe a believer My highly unscientific, one-time test run may not prove much.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • This isn't the first time Santelli has come under fire for his unscientific statements about the virus.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 4 Dec. 2020
  • This debate, likely the only one these two candidates will have, was unscientific, through and through.
    — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • That gives us a very unscientific one through four for Detroit sports in early 2020.
    — Jamie Samuelsen, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2020
  • But this is a misguided use of the language of science to give a sheen of legitimacy to unscientific claims.
    — Shoumita Dasgupta, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Some scientists and other thinkers have argued that the idea of the landscape is unscientific, since it cannot be tested directly.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
  • But critics say the memo builds on kernels of truth before veering into unscientific fringe theories.
    — Stephanie Armour, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Emmons has done unscientific experiments at home and has found that amber glass helps plants grow the fastest, but any clear container will do, so the roots get some light.
    — Emily Main, Good Housekeeping, 23 June 2017
  • But a very unscientific survey found that the call of foreign countries resonates with plenty of Sharif's students.
    — Mick Krever, CNN, 27 June 2017
  • Bedő’s surveys, while unscientific, have convinced him that Orbán can’t win an honest election.
    — Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Yet the origin of horoscopes is not entirely unscientific.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2026

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