Unjustifiable
[ʌn'dʒʌstɪfaɪəb(ə)l]
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Unwarrantable, indefensible.
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Examples
- It was a most unjustifiable action. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Doubtless the scheme may have been used, in unjustifiable ways, as a means of retarding our emancipation. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But knowing they were Italians, Hans had said, we attempted to manoeuvre which would have been unjustifiable against other troops. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Nevertheless that the claims made for instruction in science were unjustifiable does not follow. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It was their infatuated perseverance in an unjustifiable, a hopeless, a ruinous war, which had brought the nation to its present pass. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Lady Catherine's unjustifiable endeavours to separate us were the means of removing all my doubts. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Emily, my girl,' said Wardle reproachfully, 'I detest meanness and deceit; this is unjustifiable and indelicate in the highest degree. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- But to expose the former faults of any person without knowing what their present feelings were, seemed unjustifiable. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
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