for no good reason

idiom

: with no acceptable explanation
She left for no good reason.

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Trump is correct about California’s moronic policy that wastes vast amounts of water and starves its agricultural areas for no good reason. The Editors, National Review, 13 Jan. 2025 This poor girl and thousands of others suffer for no good reason and the world sits idly by and does nothing. Megan Feringa, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025 Here, we are licensed to discriminate in both senses of the word, exercising aesthetic judgment so as to declare some works better than others, rejecting prospective friends and lovers for no good reason at all. Becca Rothfeld, Harper's Magazine, 2 Mar. 2024 That’s certainly something a lot of adaptations fail at, either inserting too much of the filmmakers’ politics or simply changing the story for no good reason. Erik Kain, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for for no good reason 

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“For no good reason.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/for%20no%20good%20reason. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.

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