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Example sentences for "unbalanced"

Lexicographically close words:
unawares; unawed; unbaffled; unbaked; unbalance; unbalancing; unbaptised; unbaptized; unbar; unbarked
  1. But such a mood as this, unbalanced and untempered by a loftier one, is hazardous to the eternal interests of the soul.

  2. It is not, then, a correct idea of Christ that we have, when we look upon Him as unmixed complacency and unbalanced compassion.

  3. Such a complex diversity of mental states existing perhaps co-incidently at the same hour in the mind of a girl may, if acute, lead to an outwardly recognizable form of hysteria and even to an unbalanced mind.

  4. That is to say that mothers whose natural desire for union has been denied, and mothers who are congenitally frigid rather tend to produce children with unbalanced sex-feeling liable to yield to self-abuse.

  5. Page 99: Paragraph beginning “Even at the risk of wearying my readers” contains an unbalanced quotation mark near the end of the paragraph.

  6. Page 37: Paragraph beginning “In spite, however, of all positive evidence to the contrary” contains an unbalanced quotation mark.

  7. Page 119: Paragraph beginning “Spedding, himself a genius” ends with an unbalanced quotation mark.

  8. Whether Louis Laplante's excitable nature were momentarily unbalanced by the success of his feat, I leave to psychologists.

  9. Leaning over to take sure aim, I fired, but a side jerk unbalanced me.

  10. She felt that she had been very unbalanced all the day.

  11. The thought that she had lost Verisschenzko completely unbalanced her.

  12. For Stevenson had at his elbow a friend, an invalid like himself, a man of courage and stoicism like himself; but a man in whom everything that Stevenson made delicate and rational became unbalanced and blind.

  13. He pushed further and further the extravagances of a vivid but very unbalanced and barbaric style, in the praise of a poet who really represented the calmest classicism and the attempt to restore a Hellenic equilibrium in the mind.

  14. My friend, the doctor, says that you are a crude people and that you have only simulated the nervousness, unbalanced behavior, and intrigues that accompany love in other civilized countries even to refinement.

  15. The acts of that unbalanced creature were fraying his nerves.

  16. The almost invariable cause of this is an improper distribution of the body weight over the hoof--that is, an unbalanced foot.

  17. The unbalanced course pursued by the Tsar, his unwise reforms, and his capricious policy had not only alienated everyone, but caused serious apprehensions for the safety of the empire.

  18. Nothing could exceed the grossness and the unbalanced folly of Peter's course.

  19. It has never been settled which is cause and which effect, whether insanity creates the awful manifestations of egotism or the unbalanced egotism induces insanity.

  20. The thorough arousal of the latent powers of the nature, and the suffering which ensues from the results of its unbalanced actions, constitute the discipline of this life.

  21. Considering the unbalanced component of these forces at right angles to the axis of the pin, which alone produce bending, each pin may be considered as a beam of circular cross section secured at one end and loaded at the other.

  22. The short wheel base and unbalanced loading caused a good many upsets, but they were compact, easily handled, and could be dumped from either side or end.

  23. Had I had none but mentally unbalanced people to talk with, I might have continued to cherish a distorted perspective.

  24. Miners and shepherds who penetrate the mountain fastnesses sometimes become mentally unbalanced as a result of prolonged loneliness.

  25. As a result of an unbalanced bill of fare, the nutrients taken in excess of the daily needs undergo a form of decomposition, producing what is called autointoxication, and become a most prolific source of dis-ease.

  26. Sidenote: Effect of sedative occupations upon nutrition] Under continued physical exertion, the body will thrive for a time on an unbalanced diet.

  27. The three-phase system is said to be unbalanced when the load is unevenly distributed over the three-phase wires.

  28. The three-wire system is said to be unbalanced when one of the outside wires is carrying more current than the other.

  29. We must counteract the sensational exaggerations, which have such a bad effect on unbalanced minds, by stating the bare, hard facts.

  30. Unbalanced minds are very ready to believe that someone is influencing them.

  31. Some days passed quickly by, and he began to think that he had disturbed himself foolishly, and had suffered his judgment to be unbalanced by the impulsive speeches of Hilda and of his own mother.

  32. His mind, too, was somewhat unbalanced by the shock he had lately received, and his attention was concentrated upon himself rather than upon the things and persons he saw.

  33. Perhaps Margaret grew too old for metaphysics, perhaps Henry was weaning her from them, but she felt that there was something a little unbalanced in the mind that so readily shreds the visible.

  34. The flight from Oniton; the unbalanced patronage of the Basts; the explosion of grief up on the Downs--all connected with Paul, an insignificant boy whose lips had kissed hers for a fraction of time.

  35. It may be unbalanced to fly out of England, but to stay away eight months argues that the heart is awry as well as the head.

  36. Strange," he soliloquised, "how mentally unbalanced these common men are!

  37. Ingletree's postscript is pathetic, and vividly shows the present unbalanced state of his mind.

  38. But defectives who are not unbalanced all the time or on all subjects, may be able now and then to realize the meaning of marriage and to give deliberate consent, though the presumption is against them.

  39. Think, too, of the loss involved in unbalanced minds, as in unbalanced engines, one mass of bigoted inertia retarding another mass!

  40. Such notions are idle, and even the mere fact that unbalanced brains may air them abroad tends to impair the legitimate authority of eugenic ideals.

  41. But they intermarried with an insane stock, and subsequently married other women of an unbalanced nature.

  42. At first they pooh-poohed me as an unbalanced boy, but they looked up the documents in the Admiralty and there was no question.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unbalanced" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abnormal; cracked; crazy; daft; demented; deranged; disoriented; disproportionate; distraught; disturbed; eccentric; extravagant; flighty; illegal; inequitable; iniquitous; insane; irrational; irregular; leaning; listing; loco; lopsided; lunatic; mad; manic; mental; nuts; odd; off; psycho; psychotic; queer; reasonless; screwy; senseless; sick; strange; tetched; touched; unbalanced; undeserved; undue; unequal; uneven; unhinged; unmerited; unsettled; unsound; unstable; unsteady; wandering; witless; wrong; wrongful