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unconscionably

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

不合情理地,不合情理,不合情理的,不合情理的是

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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.

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Examples

  • Promoting assaults on children or on anyone without consent is unconscionable.

  • “The governor continues to impose draconian and unconscionable prohibitions on the daily life of all Californians that even the governor disregards at his own whim,” the brief said.

  • “To shut down the government in the midst of a pandemic and recession would be unconscionable,” said Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

  • It is unconscionable that such protections are still not in place today.

  • “This is unconscionable,” he told Schuchat and more than a dozen others around the conference table, his voice so anguished it alarmed some who were there.

  • An unconscionably long time when you have a delicious sole à la Regence getting cold on your hands.

  • However delicate a definition is framed for 'profiteering,' these packers have preyed upon the people unconscionably.

  • The afternoon promised to be unconscionably long in reaching four o'clock, and Forbes set out for another saunter down the Avenue.

  • If it had not been for the lurking hope of some fresh exciting experience with a woman, he would have been unconscionably lonely.

  • "I fear I have paid you an unconscionably long visit," I said.