unconscionable
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Synonyms
baroque, devilish, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fancy, immoderate, inordinate, insane, intolerable, lavish, overdue, overextravagant, overmuch, overweening, plethoric, steep, stiff, towering, undue, unmerciful
Antonyms
middling, moderate, modest, reasonable, temperate
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In the eyes of this unconscionable administration, none of it matters, and none of them deserve to brush their teeth or wash their faces. — Kim Kelly, Allure, "Angels With Dirty Faces," 12 July 2019 The inhumane treatment of children in overcrowded detention camps is unconscionable. — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, "Letter: Why hold immigrant kids in unsanitary for-profit camps?," 8 July 2019 Imagine how much more unconscionable that would feel if the city of Houston hadn’t been lucky enough to get an expansion team in 2002. — Conor Orr, SI.com, "Which NFL Throwback Uniforms Should Make a Comeback?," 28 June 2019 That children are sleeping on concrete floors without basic resources is unconscionable. — John Hirschauer, National Review, "Angela Rye Knows You’re Racist," 24 June 2019 Increasingly, these sites are where people conduct their lives, and the task of keeping them within acceptable bounds of discourse, and excluding the unconscionable, may be the most important thing the firms do. — The Economist, "The unacknowledged legislators of the online world," 14 June 2019 To add some sort of shame and demonization on top of all that is just unconscionable. — Julyssa Lopez, Glamour, "What Unplanned Gets Wrong About Abortion, According to Experts," 11 Apr. 2019 Those vehicles already have been given tax credits, so a further free ride is unconscionable. — WSJ, "Time to Take a Fresh Look At the Federal Gasoline Tax," 29 Mar. 2019 Newspapers like the Gazette do vital work, and our thoughts are with them amid this unconscionable tragedy. — Catherine Rentz, baltimoresun.com, "What they're saying about the fatal shooting at Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis," 29 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'unconscionable.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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