Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not justifiable; unjustifiable.

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Examples

  • "insensitive and irresponsible statements" that sought to justify the "injustifiable" Shell House massacre in which 11 Zulu marchers were shot outside the ANC's headquarters in March last year.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • If the favorable and unfavorable ratings are fairly well balanced, the more decisive factors should be re-evaluated to determine the extent to which supplementary measures could provide the missing conditions for building and operating a biogas plant despite some reservations but without injustifiable effort.

    2. A planning guide 1989

  • I believe he was, in reality, glad to assign the cold treatment he had received from his friend to a cause which, however injustifiable, is at the same time highly natural; and to acquit him of a levity, fickleness, and caprice, which he must have been unwillingly obliged to have seen in a much worse light.

    Amelia — Volume 1 Henry Fielding 1730

  • I believe he was, in reality, glad to assign the cold treatment he had received from his friend to a cause which, however injustifiable, is at the same time highly natural; and to acquit him of a levity, fickleness, and caprice, which he must have been unwillingly obliged to have seen in a much worse light.

    Amelia — Complete Henry Fielding 1730

  • I never heard that before, but it seems like the most injustifiable tax.

    Webmaster Forum Natural Elements 2010

  • "The army does not have the means to tackle the barbaric and injustifiable attacks that it has suffered.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

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