as in unacceptable
too bad to be excused or justified
the city's lack of preparedness for a major natural disaster was utterly indefensible
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Recent Examples of indefensible
Photo: Buena Vista Pictures/Everett Collection The only flat-out indefensible film in Coppola’s career, Jack serves mainly to underscore all the ways in which Big could have gone horribly wrong.
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Scott Tobias, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
What an indefensible, reprehensible & disrespectful thing to have done.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2024
Trump’s lies about having won that election in a landslide are indefensible, but glossing over them is a price Vance has been willing to pay for his political career.
—The Editors, National Review, 2 Oct. 2024
Impossible jobs make for good TV, but impossible demands sooner or later become indefensible in real life.
—Byallie Garfinkle, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2024
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Scott Tobias, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
What an indefensible, reprehensible & disrespectful thing to have done.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2024
Trump’s lies about having won that election in a landslide are indefensible, but glossing over them is a price Vance has been willing to pay for his political career.
—The Editors, National Review, 2 Oct. 2024
Impossible jobs make for good TV, but impossible demands sooner or later become indefensible in real life.
—Byallie Garfinkle, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for indefensible
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Rangers: After winning the Presidents’ Trophy last year, the Rangers viewed a conference final loss to the eventual champions as an unacceptable result.Sean McIndoe, The Athletic, 26 Dec. 2024
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Given how much aid the United States has already provided to Ukraine, there is not much room for Washington to expand the flow of arms quantitatively, and further qualitative increases would entail unacceptable escalation risks.Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 24 Dec. 2024
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To make this gloomy picture even darker, unjustifiable gender disparities continue, as do exploitation, violence, and abuse.Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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To convict, prosecutors have told the jury that Penny's use of lethal force must be considered unjustifiable and that Penny acted recklessly and consciously disregarded the substantial risk of putting Neely in the chokehold for so long.Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 3 Dec. 2024
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Another user says Pereira not fighting Ankalaev is inexcusable. Combat Sports Insider suggested something bigger and more unexpected could be on the horizon.Brian Mazique, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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And even if the results aren’t there, efforts like this on home ice are inexcusable.Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 15 Dec. 2024
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An outrageous budget buster that’s heading for approval will blow a $200 billion hole in the trust fund.John Fund, National Review, 19 Dec. 2024
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But any unpalatable class issues at the center of the movie are smoothed over by the outrageous star power of Culkin, who is so charismatic as Kevin that the performance has followed him ever since.Erin Somers, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024
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Unless the distress among the German people should become insupportable, any sudden advance movement on their part that relied on force would be doomed to failure without armed support and assistance from outside.Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
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There are people of goodwill who think the way out of this insupportable situation lies in the fight for equal democratic rights in a single state for everyone living in the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2024
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That indifference is the world’s burden to share, and will always be a tragedy on top of a tragedy — inexplicable, indefensible, unforgivable.S.E. Cupp, New York Daily News, 10 Dec. 2024
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One of them is the unforgivable delay in seriously investigating Trump.Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, 27 Nov. 2024
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Trump’s explicit threats against the Bidens, and his record of trying to politicize the Justice Department and FBI, almost justify an unpardonable pardon, columnist Jackie Calmes writes.Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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In her small and deeply Catholic community, suicide is an unpardonable sin, so a horrible crime lures her with the promise of escape.Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2024
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But the blaze was the latest manifestation of a vicious cycle in which flammable invasive grasses are choking out fire-resistant vegetation in the Santa Monica Mountains.Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
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This can create a vicious cycle of one cold sore healing while another forms.Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 20 Dec. 2024
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“Indefensible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indefensible. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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