conscionable
IPA: kˈɑnʃʌnʌbʌɫ
adjective
- In accordance with conscience; defensible; proper.
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Examples of "conscionable" in Sentences
- Both are medically, ethically conscionable uses of a donated body.
- Walking away from atrocities does not make them go away, and it is not conscionable morally or wise strategically ...
- Actually treating them like "common criminals" is conscionable because it validates our system of laws and our culture.
- Viet Nam also set the precedent for the CIA to go well beyond any conscionable realm for their involvement in the murder of Diem.
- All it promises now is deforestation, escalating world food prices, revolution and starvation. the only conscionable use for food is food.
- Any time we make a conscionable effort at acquiring said Wardrobe we invariably become confused and disoriented and have to breathe deeply and then go eat a snack.
- This appears to either be a case of seeking tax exemptions (which makes less sense than for heterosexual couples capable of having children and the necessity for said exemptions that accompanies that) or for acknowledgement of their lifestyles as conscionable by the American people.
- On the plus side of the ledger, Iraq has many of the structural features of a modern, functioning society - an educated populace, an economic middle class and bureaucratic institutions that, while lumbering and more corrupt than would be conscionable by our standards, still manage to deliver services to the public.
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