unallowable

Example Sentences

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Because of the administrative overcharge, many Oklahomans who applied for ERA awards were denied assistance because the unallowable charges were kept by the foundation, Byrd said.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 27, 2023

This is a function of the nature of words to be true or false, allowable or unallowable.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

The department doesn't have authority to reject a district's spending, she said, unless it's "definitely unallowable."

From Fox News • Oct. 6, 2021

Why is Hansen’s claim that, for the health of the planet, we reduce our greenhouse gas emissions an unallowable example of advocacy when we trust a doctor’s recommendation that we stop smoking cigarettes?

From Slate • Apr. 13, 2016

Hence it is unallowable to say that a hundred thousand is a larger part of an infinite number than two, although the former is fifty thousand times greater than the latter.

From A History of Science — Volume 2 by Williams, Henry Smith