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
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middling, moderate, modest, reasonable, temperate
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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 2018 So awful that my colleagues still don't understand their unconscionable silence has become a green light for would-be shooters, who perceive inaction as endorsement. — Ruth Bruno, courant.com, "What They're Saying About The Maryland Newsroom Shooting," 28 June 2018 Mom called me crying over this unconscionable threat to losing nursing home care desperately needed. — Tina Burnside And Darran Simon, CNN, "Tens of thousands of Louisiana residents could lose Medicaid benefits," 9 May 2018 That’s unconscionable — and we at Planned Parenthood won’t stand for it. — Cecile Richards, Time, "Cecile Richards: 'Reproductive Justice and Immigrant Justice Are Part of the Same Fight'," 14 Feb. 2018 For a life to be taken when something is preventable is unconscionable to me. — Ashley Halsey Iii, The Washington Post, chicagotribune.com, "10 years later, thousands of risky air bags are still on the road," 23 Apr. 2018 And then the other guy who’s been accused of doing some unconscionable s---. — Tim Rohan, SI.com, "Michael, Murray and ... OJ? Ahmad Rashad Has Kept His Celeb Friends Close—Most of Them, Anyway," 29 June 2018 How can a government treat its own people with such unconscionable callousness? — Mark Sappenfield, The Christian Science Monitor, "The costs of liberty," 15 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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