inexcusable
incapable of being excused or justified.
Origin of inexcusable
1Other words for inexcusable
Other words from inexcusable
- in·ex·cus·a·bil·i·ty, in·ex·cus·a·ble·ness, noun
- in·ex·cus·a·bly, adverb
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How to use inexcusable in a sentence
Even if the Patriots had a 5 to 10 percent chance to win the game, not taking it is inexcusable.
What to know from NFL Week 6: Bill Belichick let Mike McCarthy off the hook | Adam Kilgore | October 18, 2021 | Washington PostBernardo characterized Klein’s conduct as “outrageous” and “inexcusable,” and the Anderson School suspended Klein from teaching and banned him from campus.
The woke mob runs into a college teacher who’s fighting back | George Will | October 8, 2021 | Washington PostThe first two, though, ended in draws — an excusable one in El Salvador and an inexcusable one at home against Canada.
Gregg Berhalter and the USMNT looked headed for disaster. Instead, they proved they could adjust. | Steven Goff | September 9, 2021 | Washington PostIt is maddening and outrageous and completely inexcusable that Texas’s lack of sound utility regulation is having this impact on the rest of the country.
Minnesotans furious that they have to pay for Texas’ deep-freeze problems | Tim De Chant | April 23, 2021 | Ars Technica“Meyers Leonard’s comment was inexcusable and hurtful, and such an offensive term has no place in the NBA or in our society,” Commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement.
NBA fines Meyers Leonard $50,000, suspends him from Heat activities for antisemitic slur | Glynn A. Hill | March 11, 2021 | Washington Post
That kind of spoiled naïveté seems inexcusable in a clearly intelligent author who is pushing 30.
The lack of unity is “inexcusable and lets our party down,” he said.
Yes, it was a major and inexcusable fiasco, as I wrote last week.
Enough Already on HealthCare.gov. Don’t You Remember Medicare Part D? | Michael Tomasky | October 29, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTNothing makes their victory inevitable but the inexcusable assumption that it is.
That's an inexcusable lack of leadership from our political elites.
It is very inexcusable in him if he stops to play with any other boys, said the young lady, smiling.
Oliver Twist, Vol. II (of 3) | Charles DickensAnd hardly a degree less menacing is this gigantic octapus of labor unionism—of inexcusable socialism.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonUnless it is because of a dream, what you have just now told me is entirely inexcusable.
Amphitryon | MoliereHe thought it very wrong and selfish and quite inexcusable on the part of the Church authorities.
Passing By | Maurice BaringThe protracted delays and inexcusable sluggishness of the leaders had borne their natural fruits.
History of the Rise of the Huguenots | Henry Baird
British Dictionary definitions for inexcusable
/ (ˌɪnɪkˈskjuːzəbəl) /
not able to be excused or justified
Derived forms of inexcusable
- inexcusability or inexcusableness, noun
- inexcusably, adverb
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