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
It has been driven by Israeli actions that are increasingly seen as disproportionate and indefensible.
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Asher Kaufman, The Conversation, 23 Aug. 2025
By excluding these benefits, the EPA is effectively assigning no value to American lives saved, an indefensible position for EPA.
—Margo T. Oge, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
This is dangerously anti-democratic and indefensible.
—Larry Hogan, Baltimore Sun, 7 Aug. 2025
Also the most reckless and indefensible.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for indefensible
Asher Kaufman, The Conversation, 23 Aug. 2025
By excluding these benefits, the EPA is effectively assigning no value to American lives saved, an indefensible position for EPA.
—Margo T. Oge, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
This is dangerously anti-democratic and indefensible.
—Larry Hogan, Baltimore Sun, 7 Aug. 2025
Also the most reckless and indefensible.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for indefensible
Adjective
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Denying people the essentials necessary for their survival, to obtain compliance or a political agreement, should be unacceptable.—
Anna Halford,
Time,
25 Oct. 2025
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Controversy arose earlier this year after residents, a council member and the mayor declared a cooling station set up for homeless residents and others without adequate heating and cooling as unacceptable.—
Rebecca Noel,
Charlotte Observer,
24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The heinous, appalling and unjustifiable massacre of October 7 followed decades of violence.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
10 Oct. 2025
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Other comedians have pointed to the inconsistency of balking at performing in Saudi Arabia when other governments around the world also sponsor morally unjustifiable actions.—
Hershal Pandya,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The failure to see this coming was an inexcusable Democratic strategic catastrophe.—
David Faris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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This is not just baffling but really inexcusable.—
Marsha Sutton,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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This was all completely outrageous.—
David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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Including the one about Britney and the knife The most outrageous and tragic claim of the book is one that Federline says his sons told him.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Conservatives and Republicans in Congress continue to claim that the cost of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits is an insupportable burden on America, so benefits need to be cut, though President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to preserve entitlements like Social Security and Medicare.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Jan. 2025
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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
Adjective
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Moreover, the fact that Ms. Presley chooses to make heartless and ridiculous statements about Area 51 and Bigfoot, making a mockery of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll’s death and his only daughter’s death, is shameful, disappointing and unforgivable.—
Janelle Ash,
FOXNews.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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This version — in which Eli Manning serves as executive producer along with Omaha Productions’ Peyton Manning, Jamie Horowitz, Ben Brown and ESPN — picks up eight years after an unforgivable mistake nukes the promising football career of hotshot quarterback Russ Holliday (Powell).—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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If Sam is wrong, his journalistic sin is unpardonable.—
Neal B. Freeman,
National Review,
13 May 2025
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Attacking innocent citizens, in this case tourists, is utterly appalling and unpardonable.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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This creates a vicious cycle where shame is a currency, and the only person who actually pays a price is the one who is mocked.—
Eli Thompson,
Rolling Stone,
25 Oct. 2025
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After their parents got the police involved, the case remained unsolved for months until the FBI uncovered the shocking truth of who was behind the vicious messages after all.—
James Mercadante,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Indefensible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indefensible. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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