unconscionable
IPA: ʌnkˈɑnʃʌnʌbʌɫ
adjective
- Not conscionable; unscrupulous and lacking principles or conscience.
- Excessive, imprudent or unreasonable.
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Examples of "unconscionable" in Sentences
- What's "unconscionable" is convicting people without a trial!
- The word unconscionable could only begin to describe the situation.
- What they did to him in 1991 and have perpetuated ever since solely because a black conservative must be destroyed is a good example of where the term unconscionable applies.
- A grand jury cleared Pleasantville, N.Y., police Officer Aaron Hess of wrongdoing in Henry's death, but his parents are suing Hess for what they call an "unconscionable use of force."
- March 24 Bloomberg -- Aetna Inc. is suing six New Jersey doctors over medical bills it calls "unconscionable," including $56,980 for a bedside consultation and $59,490 for an ultrasound that typically costs $74.
- The UMW also rebuked federal regulators-- and, to a lesser extent, their state counterparts -- for what it called an "unconscionable" failure to use all the tools they had to shut down the long-troubled mine and prevent the nation's deadliest coal mine explosion in four decades.
- As South Korean President Lee Myung-bak continued his state visit to the United States on Friday a group of nongovernmental organizations NGOs wants the Obama administration to explain what they call unconscionable delays in deciding whether to resume U.S. food assistance to North Korea.
- Over 450,000 people have signed a rapidly-growing petition against the sell-off, action groups are spontaneously springing up all over the country to defend local woods, and two weeks ago 100 leading figures - including Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees, actress Judi Dench and the Archbishop of Canterbury wrote to this newspaper to call the plans "unconscionable" - and "ill-conceived".
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