Definition of "unauthorized" []

• Not having any authority (adjective)
• Without official authorization (adjective)

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• "Even the phrase "unauthorized autobiography" is old hat."
• "Yet I've never felt completely comfortable with the term unauthorized, probably because it sounds slightly nefarious, almost as if it involves breaking and entering."
• ""Even after all these years I'm still not comfortable with the term unauthorized, because it sounds so nefarious, almost as if it involves breaking and entering,""