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indefensible

/in-di-fen-suh-buhl/US // ˌɪn dɪˈfɛn sə bəl //UK // (ˌɪndɪˈfɛnsəbəl) //

无可辩驳的,无可辩驳,无可辩解的,无可辩解

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not justifiable; inexcusable: indefensible behavior.
    • : incapable of being protected or defended against attack: an indefensible town.
    • : incapable of being defended against criticism or denial; untenable: indefensible argument.

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Examples

  • Vaccine nationalism, where a handful of nations have taken the lion’s share, is morally indefensible and an ineffective public health strategy against a respiratory virus that is mutating quickly.

  • In an interview in the 1920s, Averell Harriman explained, “It is indefensible for a man who has capital not to apply himself diligently to using it in a way that will be of most benefit to his country.”

  • To be fair, Breyer doesn’t really try to defend the indefensible claim that Gorsuch does not take a “conservative” approach in the sort of politically charged cases that divide the Court, or that Ginsburg was not “liberal.”

  • He wrote on Twitter that he has “never found the decisions of the council so indefensible.”

  • The execs we spoke to said it is inherently indefensible from a legal point of view.

  • Clay engineered the morally indefensible Missouri Compromise.

  • The recent and tragic story of what happened to Isabel Stapleton was, of course, outrageous, indefensible and unforgiveable.

  • Disproportionate death tolls, tragic though they may be, are an excuse to place Israel in an utterly indefensible position.

  • The misuse of Sandy funds is not only morally indefensible but potentially criminal.

  • It was perfectly clear already that the 1,600 Marines there were in imminent danger, their position almost indefensible.

  • There is nothing like a plaintive retort when your case is utterly indefensible.

  • Would not silence be construed by the world as meaning that the cause dear to the heart of God's people is indefensible?

  • They are not much worse than the Strephon and the Chloe class, in which our ancestors delighted; still, they are indefensible.

  • The nobles had resort to a still more indefensible measure than the expulsion of their métayers.

  • To go below this point of particular cost would obviously be indefensible from every point of view.