uncategoricallyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

副詞

uncategorically (not comparable)

1. (proscribed) Categorically, absolutely, without qualification.
   • 1975 March 22, William H. Harvey, quotee, First Session on Examination into the Justification for the Continuance of Federal Programs for Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment (Hearings Before the Subcommitte on Alcoholism and Narcotics of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare), page 262:

     Lest my remarks be interpreted as an all out endorsement of SAODAP, let me state uncategorically that I wish to see some long-overdue modification of this agency as well as modification of the total traditional structure of the Federal effort

   • 1990 February 11, Carrie Wofford, “Gay Groups Blast Silber”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 30, page 3:

     Speakers described Silber as uncategorically intolerant because of his positions on issues regarding women, gay men and lesbians, and immigrants. Silber was also called a dictator because of his approach to student and faculty opposition at the university.

使用する際の注意点

• This term is often condemned as a mistake for categorically.

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