Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Conscientiously; according to conscience.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb Reasonably; justly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a conscionable manner.

Etymologies

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conscionable +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • I do not have the emotional ability to grasp how a grown adult would be able to conscionably spray this toxic and excruciatingly painful substance into the faces of these young people, who were peacefully and responsibly expressing their concerns for the world they find themselves growing up in.

    Heather McCloskey Beck: Creating Peace Through Conscience and Creativity Heather McCloskey Beck 2011

  • I do not have the emotional ability to grasp how a grown adult would be able to conscionably spray this toxic and excruciatingly painful substance into the faces of these young people, who were peacefully and responsibly expressing their concerns for the world they find themselves growing up in.

    Heather McCloskey Beck: Creating Peace Through Conscience and Creativity Heather McCloskey Beck 2011

  • I do not have the emotional ability to grasp how a grown adult would be able to conscionably spray this toxic and excruciatingly painful substance into the faces of these young people, who were peacefully and responsibly expressing their concerns for the world they find themselves growing up in.

    Heather McCloskey Beck: Creating Peace Through Conscience and Creativity Heather McCloskey Beck 2011

  • I do not have the emotional ability to grasp how a grown adult would be able to conscionably spray this toxic and excruciatingly painful substance into the faces of these young people, who were peacefully and responsibly expressing their concerns for the world they find themselves growing up in.

    Heather McCloskey Beck: Creating Peace Through Conscience and Creativity Heather McCloskey Beck 2011

  • I must be because stuff like this could never consciously or conscionably happen in the United States of America.

    An Unconscionable and/or Unconscious America? 2007

  • If they had had mammary glands, maybe they would be harder to conscionably kill.

    Archive 2005-05-01 2005

  • If they had had mammary glands, maybe they would be harder to conscionably kill.

    Aliens as Art? 2005

  • An honest plaine meaning man, (simply and conscionably) reprehended the malignity, hypocrisie, and misdemeanour of many

    The Decameron 2004

  • Now she was angry with Zainal for this un-conscionably long delay.

    Freedoms Challenge McCaffrey, Anne 1998

  • And indeed no child of God ever conscionably used this holy exercise, but in the end he obtained his request at the hand of God; both in receiving graces which he wanted, as appears in the examples of Hannah, Jehoshaphat, Nehemiah,

    The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842

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