unbacked
Example Sentences
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Without decentralisation or a credible link to oil, the petro is just an unbacked currency issued by Venezuela’s discredited government.
From Economist
A mere remonstrance with him on the treatment of your colleagues, unbacked by force, would be futile.
From Project Gutenberg
Money and reckless good-nature had won it for him in the old school; good-nature unbacked by money was no help here at the new.
From Project Gutenberg
The need of raising money drove Congress to the doubtful expedient of issuing large quantities of paper money unbacked by bullion or specie but based upon the credit of the states.
From Project Gutenberg
Only my own assertions, unbacked by any other evidence—unsustained even by probability—for who would have given credence to crime so unparalleled in atrocity?
From Project Gutenberg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
