Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Not restrained by conscience; unscrupulous: unconscionable behavior.
- adj. Beyond prudence or reason; excessive: unconscionable spending.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not conscionable; unreasonable; exceeding the limits of any reasonable claim or expectation; inordinate; enormous: as, an unconscionable demand.
- Not guided or influenced by conscience.
Wiktionary
- adj. Not conscionable; unscrupulous and lacking principles or conscience.
- adj. Excessive, imprudent or unreasonable.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not conscionable; exceeding the limits of any reasonable claim or expectation; not conforming to reason; unreasonable; inordinate; extravagant.
- adj. Not guided by, or conformed to, conscience; that cannot be done in good conscience.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. lacking a conscience
- adj. greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation
Etymologies
- un- + conscionable (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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.”
Glenn Loury and John McWhorter on McCain and Obama at the Saddleback Civil Forum.
“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.”
“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.”
“What's "unconscionable" is convicting people without a trial!”
Administration critics slam civilian trials for 9/11 suspects
“The word unconscionable could only begin to describe the situation.”
“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.”
“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".”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“It is indeed "unconscionable" - a word our more elevated citizens love to fling over the ramparts of reasoned debate in our fair city-that the council should fail to submit to the hysterical self-interest of the privileged residents who inhabit our hillsides, and once again pander to a few special interests-everyone but them-who wish to make our downtown a place that people actually want to hang out in.”
The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper
“And almost all gay rights progress has been made by specifically not challenging people’s opinions about gay people, but by appealing to a ‘okay, hate the sin, don’t take it out on the sinner in unconscionable ways’ approach or a strictly practical approach.”
Matthew Yglesias » Marijuana Legalization as a Revenue Enhancer
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘unconscionable’.
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GRE 2014
abate, abdicate, abase, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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my fab list
blowsabella, aperçu, froideur, salubrious, abject, gallipot, mumchance, wainscot, virago, macerate, lascivious, clandestine and 181 more...
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From reading
Collected from reading
venerate, reprobate, reticent, adoration, ethereal, ephemeral, equivocal, contumacious, heinous, solicitous, agnostic, aberration and 335 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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Mikey's favorite words
Here they are. Enjoy.
unconscionable, egregious, thunderfuzzled, magnanimous, stumblepony, somnambulant, torpor, nefarious, beamish, recalcitrant, recidivist, hogshead and 1 more...
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man gre
abase, abeyance, abreast, abscission, abscond, abyss, accede, accretion, acerbic, acidulous, acumen, adulterate and 481 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1824 more...
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magoosh1
aberration, aboveboard, abysmal, ace, affable, aghast, alacrity, ambiguous, ambivalent, ameliorate, amenable, amiable and 205 more...
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GRE
pejorative, austere, unconscionable, lissome, edify, winsome, axiom, malinger, abjure, deleterious, contumacious, peregrinate and 152 more...
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apjoseph's words
insurmountable, ubiquitous, unequivocal, incumbent, asinine, amenable, sycophants, precarious, malevolent, gregarious, raison detra, nefarious and 200 more...
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MiaLuthien's list ♥
gambit, prehensile, coquetry, impunity, genuflect, ensconce, clavicle, delude, beget, castigate, life caching, convoluted and 478 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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cxfx's list
callipygous, scaphism, ubermorgen, handschuhschneeba..., farctate, autohagiography, autolatry, spindrift, feculent, verisimilitude, brobdingnagian, ineluctable and 205 more...
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Un-word List
untrammelled, untoward, unenthusiastically, unenthusiastic, undaunted, uncanny, unceasing, unbridled, unacknowledged, unacquainted, unadorned, unaffected and 239 more...
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My Revised GRE Preparation List
Words from the new GRE : This list consists mostly of words from the book Magoosh-GRE-vocab-ebook, which is one of the best vocab materials available, especially if you have started preparing one ...
alacrity, prosaic, veracity, paucity, contrite, trite, maintain, laconic, pugnacious, disparate, egregious, innocuous and 533 more...
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