unpardonable
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
As Sook tells a shamed Buddy, “there is only one unpardonable sin—deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
After last November's guilty verdict from a jury in Los Angeles, US Attorney Martin Estrada said the deaths had been caused by the ship captain's "unpardonable cowardice".
From BBC ● May 2, 2024
But alleged mistreatment of a spouse is, for many younger fans of comedy, an unpardonable sin.
From Salon ● May 3, 2023
Certainly not — the unpardonable secret agreement to stifle Wilkinson and hide her findings is evidence enough of that.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023
My faux-pas was so palpably obvious, so idiotic and unpardonable, that to ignore it would show me to be an even greater fool if possible, than I was already.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
