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unconscionable

/uhn-kon-shuh-nuh-buhl/US // ʌnˈkɒn ʃə nə bəl //UK // (ʌnˈkɒnʃənəbəl) //

不合情理,不合情理的,不合理的,不合理

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not guided by conscience; unscrupulous.
    • : not in accordance with what is just or reasonable: unconscionable behavior.
    • : excessive; extortionate: an unconscionable profit.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.immoral, immoderate

Examples

  • Yet there is no urgency on either side of the aisle, and it's unconscionable.

  • The wife’s attorney told Davis that it was “unconscionable” that the Sheriff’s Department and county lawyers withheld the clerk’s name, which is a potential violation of court rules.

  • Chris Morris, who’s representing Moriarty’s wife, Michelle, said it was “unconscionable” that the Sheriff’s Department and county lawyers withheld Werner’s name, a potential violation of court rules.

  • This is best illustrated by the unconscionable deaths of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery.

  • I read somewhere recently that, several years back, Purdue Pharma tried to acquire the marketing rights to buprenorphine, which just absolutely is unconscionable to me, and so I would agree with you one thousand percent.

  • Certainly, such crimes are beyond unconscionable and horrifying.

  • You know exactly what: Barack Obama is the weakest president ever, this is unconscionable.

  • Both sides agree that the conditions at the slaughterhouses as well as during the journey there are unconscionable.

  • Veterans groups called it unconscionable to inflict cuts of any kind on a force that has endured repeated deployments.

  • We must look in the mirror and not be afraid to confront the unconscionable reality that is Israel's military occupation.

  • The bull moved forward a little also, and I lost sight of both for what seemed to me an unconscionable time.

  • If she was merely late, he equally objected to such unconscionable inexactitude.

  • And I am aching—have ached ever since this jade of an Ideal learnt the unconscionable trick of inhabiting one image only.'

  • Mole-eyes grow hawk's: knowledge is lent In grudging driblets that pay high Unconscionable usury To unrelenting life.

  • Mother is gadding somewhere at this unconscionable hour, so I suppose they thought I didn't want any.