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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unforgivable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
sin
▪ Luke O'Malley had committed the unforgivable sin - he had informed on his friends.
▪ Marriage in his eyes is sacred; adultery the unforgivable sin.
▪ Death is the unforgivable sin of modernity, and the modern world will have nothing to do with her.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ His betrayal was unforgivable.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Franz, the egregiously angry Detective Andy Sipowicz, was his usual unforgivable / lovable self times 10.
▪ I put down the pen, because this would be the great, unforgivable Miltonian sin.
▪ On another occasion a relatively small misdemeanour proved unforgivable.
▪ She thinks my leaving her alone with our parents is a great and unforgivable betrayal.
▪ She thought his behaviour was unforgivable.
▪ This is unforgivable in the realm of scientific methodology.
▪ What was unforgivable was that he had systematically lied to me - and I had let him do it.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unforgivable

1540s, from un- (1) "not" + forgivable. In early use, especially with reference to the sin described in Matt. xii:31. Related: Unforgivably.

Wiktionary
unforgivable

a. Not forgivable.

WordNet
unforgivable

adj. not excusable [syn: inexcusable]

Wikipedia
Unforgivable (2011 film)

Unforgivable is a 2011 French drama film directed by André Téchiné, starring André Dussollier, Carole Bouquet, and Mélanie Thierry. The film is an adaptation of Philippe Djian's novel Unforgivable which received the Jean Freustié award in 2009. It was previously called The Angels Terminus. The film premiered at the Directors' Fortnight at the 2011 Cannes film festival.

Unforgivable (1996 film)

Unforgivable is a 1996 American television drama film directed by Graeme Campbell. It stars John Ritter, Harley Jane Kozak, Gina Philips, Susan Gibney and NYPD Blue co-star James McDaniel. The film premiered on April 30, 1996 on CBS.

Though the film received little to no critical acclaim, John Ritter was praised for his performance as an abusive husband and graduating from his best known role as the lovable, Jack Tripper on Three's Company.

Unforgivable

Unforgivable may refer to:

  • Unforgivable (1996 film), a 1996 American television drama film
  • Unforgivable (2011 film), the English title of 2011 French drama film Impardonnables
  • Unforgivable sins

Usage examples of "unforgivable".

Stupid to embrace sedition with a penis, particularly when the shishi possessors were few, most were being scattered or killed, and they continued to commit the unforgivable sin: failure.

The old family spinnery shall never see my face again, and all my eggs shall be scrambled for this unforgivable mistake!

But gradually as the weeks went by and I seemed to make no unforgivable bloomers, fewer and fewer other jockeys were engaged.

As vile and unforgivable as his crimes were, it is shocking how so many of his tormentors absolved themselves of any responsibility for his development.

It was a rash and foolish act, one which really was unforgivable, but I am certain others put him up to it, thinking Awari would approve.

Not even the excuse that he'd been drugging (acceptable on most Heart Worlds, though not in the Fringe) could mitigate his unforgivable boorishness.

His own breach of faith in leaving Aber Gwion saw as unforgivable, and had no blame for those who condemned it, but there was nothing Cadwaladr had done or could do that would have turned his devout vassal from revering and following him.

It was unforgivable of me to put a little boy in a candy store and tell him not to touch.

But he knew that such an act would be the one unforgivable crime against his new profession—it would be bad for business—and certain to ruin him forever with Pulg and all other extortioners if ever traced to him even in faintest suspicion.

But before he could say it more than two or three times, he had to grab his drawers and run away, because a commotion at the other end of Les Halles told him that the Lieutenant of Police was on his way to make a show of force, and to extract whatever bribes, sexual favors, and/or free oysters he could get from the fishwives in exchange for turning a blind eye to this unforgivable brouhaha.

Japan thought it an unforgivable reversion to the stupidities of gunboat diplomacy.

His shoulders were straight, his complexion ruddy, his hair gunmetal gray with touches of white at the temples, and his eyes might have been friendly had I not known the underlying purposes and unforgivable methods of this attack dog.

It's only by luck that I haven't made some unforgivable mistake so far, and this is not because I can't get at the long-term memory.

Malama hid her face and Micah tried to protect her from his raving father, but scarifying, unforgivable words poured forth: "Ezekiel said, "Thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen!

The turning loose of armed men, especially of those heartless galloglaiches, on a trapped, terrified, and mostly unarmed civilian populace constitutes to me an unforgivable crime that I know will haunt mewaking and sleeping .