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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unjustifiable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
unjustifiable accusations
unjustifiable delays
▪ It is morally unjustifiable to punish a whole class for the actions of one or two of its members.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But, as this Court has recognized, discrimination may be so unjustifiable as to be violative of due process.
▪ Macarthy, the defence lawyer, found himself in the position of trying to defend the indefensible and justify the unjustifiable.
▪ No one argues that the referral is wholly unjustifiable on clinical grounds.
▪ The business constituency, on the other hand, views much regulation as an unjustifiable intrusion by the State.
▪ Without having a particular reason, like Catholicism, he found it unjustifiable.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unjustifiable

1640s, from un- (1) "not" + justifiable. Related: Unjustifiably.

Wiktionary
unjustifiable

a. That cannot be justified, excused or pardoned.

WordNet
unjustifiable

adj. incapable of being justified or explained [syn: indefensible, insupportable, unwarrantable, unwarranted]

Usage examples of "unjustifiable".

I am told all the pamphlets are exceptionable in point of temper, and this one in particular, which not only ascribes the most unworthy motives to its antagonist, but contains some very unjustifiable and gratuitous attacks upon other sects unconnected with the dispute.

Somerville, the briefless, held that in the absence of all data such conclusion was unjustifiable.

It would be impossible, except in a volume, to write a complete history of that protest against the unjustifiable cruelties of animal experimentation, which gradually led to a demand for their legal suppression.

His ultimate weakness in the nullification matter, his opposition to internal improvements, his policy of sacrificing the public lands to individual speculators, his warfare against the Bank of the United States conducted by methods the most unjustifiable, the transaction of the removal of the deposits so disreputable and injurious in all its details, the importation of Mrs.

The fact that certain demonstrations or experiments upon living animals had already been condemned as unjustifiable cruelty by the leading men in the medical profession, and by some of the principal medical journals of England, was then as utterly unknown to me as the same facts are to-day unknown to the average graduate of every medical school in the United States.

We sincerely trust that this interview may be the means of putting an end to the unjustifiable brutalities too often inflicted on the lower animals under the guise of scientific experimentation.

Its report, submitted in March last year, overwhelmingly disproved the charges that the medical experiments upon animals are immoral and unjustifiable.

That there was a deliberate purpose to mislead the public by an affirmation that cruel and unjustifiable experiments were a myth, the creation of imagination, is an hypothesis we must reject.

If, for example, it were publicly stated by authorities in the profession that experiments of this nature, made for the mere purpose of demonstrating admitted physiological facts, are unjustifiable, a great step would be gained, and a great ground of complaint cut from under the feet of the enthusiastic antivivisection societies.

All experiments made by inexperienced and incapable observers are unjustifiable, and for an obvious reason.

When, therefore, any fact of this kind has been once determined and positively acquired to science, all repetition of experiments for its further demonstration are unnecessary, and therefore unjustifiable.

Would the author have its readers believe that painful or unjustifiable experiments are never performed?

She felt the extremest anger at the unprovoked and unwarrantable harshness of Miss Margland, and a resentment nearly equal at the determined petulance, and unjustifiable aspersions of Indiana.

This language was as unjustifiable as the Rohilla war, for Hastings had not profited in the least by his connexion with the nabob, and was at the time, in fact, a poorer man than when he quitted his inferior employment at Madras: he had sought money, it is true, but it was for the company, and not for himself.

It is of the unjustifiable conduct of the Assistant Spikeman I would speak.