Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Unconscionable; not conscientious.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Unconscionable.
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- adjective Obsolete form of
unconscionable .
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Examples
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More limelight for you means less for the rest of us, so I find this blog an inconscionable attack upon other writers in the field.
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Ignorance of the criteria required for a just war is inconscionable in those in positions of power, whether they be administrators or legislators.
Bushwhacked! 2008
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It's just inconscionable for even a small amount of anything to get out from a safety room without detection.
Discuss. Ann Althouse 2008
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They seem extremely concerned about the bloggers inconscionable lack of ethics so I'm hoping they can find some ways to correct our egregious practices.
Hullabaloo 2004
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The sailor was systematically kept out of it, and hence out of the means of enjoyment and carousal it afforded him, for inconscionable periods.
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Modern Hellenism breathes the inconscionable spirit of the _émigré_. '
The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey Nevill Forbes 1906
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He would have been amazed by a display of intimate knowledge such as no British quidnunc could have mustered if he had happened to stumble across these intricacies of international competition, and the conversation would always have terminated in the same unanswered but inconscionable challenge to the future: 'When will the oppressed majority of our race escape the Turkish yoke?
The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey Nevill Forbes 1906
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh why the apex court should not intervene when "astronomical and inconscionable" amounts of public money is being spent on construction of the Rs 2,600 memorials and statues of Dalit icons in Lucknow.
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh why the apex court should not intervene when "astronomical and inconscionable" amounts of public money is being spent on construction of the Rs 2,600 memorials and statues of Dalit icons in Lucknow.
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Not if RCN put in a clause that said they reserve the right to change the terms of the contract without prior notice ... by Anonymous Coward - Apr 23rd, 2009 @ 5: 47am and that would be inconscionable by Anonymous Coward - Apr 23rd, 2009 @ 6: 20am
Techdirt 2009
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