Usually means: Not justified, necessary, or appropriate.
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  1. uncalled-for: Merriam-Webster
  2. uncalled-for: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. uncalled-for, uncalled-for: Collins English Dictionary
  4. uncalled-for: Vocabulary.com
  5. uncalled-for: Wordnik
  6. uncalled-for: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. uncalled-for: Wiktionary
  8. uncalled-for: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. uncalled-for: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. uncalled-for: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. uncalled-for: Dictionary.com
  12. uncalled-for: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Uncalled-for: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. uncalled-for: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. uncalled-for: Rhymezone
  16. Uncalled-for: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. uncalled-for: FreeDictionary.org
  18. uncalled-for: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. uncalled-for: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. uncalled-for: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. uncalled-for: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (uncalled-for)

adjective:  Unwanted; not requested or required.
adjective:  Unwarranted, disproportionate, or inappropriate; not deserved or justified, especially when rude or offensive.

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