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the quality of being a conclusion or opinion based on supposition and conjecture rather than on fact or investigation
her work is highly contentious because of its speculativeness and lack of supporting evidence -
financial risk
he rejected stocks that didn't pay dividends because of their speculativeness
How To Use speculativeness In A Sentence
- her work is highly contentious because of its speculativeness and lack of supporting evidence
- Under the common-law rule, therefore, the crucial point is not the certainty or speculativeness of the wife's interest, but rather the precise word choices made by the drafter of the trust document.
- he rejected stocks that didn't pay dividends because of their speculativeness
- If a decent argument can be made, though, regarding "speculative" fiction's exclusive speculativeness-- or, at least, if it can delineate itself as a form in itself, then, ayun. More Issues Raised
- The article and the dissertation decidedly follow such speculativeness.
- She moved then to look at me, and I saw that her eyes held not the compassion I had feared, but a strange speculativeness, as if she questioned what I knew rather than what I felt. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
- Even at that early period, before he mixed in the society of educated persons, there was a dash of speculativeness in his remarks, which gave a high degree of originality to his conversation; and he would sometimes, in a casual remark, throw a flash of light upon a subject, which called up a train of pregnant suggestions. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson
- The Fifth Circuit test requires assessment of 1) the nature of the plaintiff’s injury; 2) the directness or indirectness of the asserted injury; 3) the proximity or remoteness of the party to the alleged injurious conduct; 4) the speculativeness of the damages claim; and 5) the risk of duplicative damages or complexity in apportioning damages. Lanham Act doesn't cover competition with customers
- His stories enthralled her with their ‘mixture of speculativeness, fantasy and gloominess.’
- Pianist Cowley moved toward a more complex and subtle music with his Radio Silence album, a venture beginning with an almost free-improv speculativeness that turns into expansive, Bad Plus-like anthems, flamenco associations, and slowed-down funk. This week's new live music