Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an inexcusable manner; unpardonably.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb With a degree of guilt or folly beyond excuse or justification.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
inexcusable manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an unpardonable manner or to an unpardonable degree
- adverb without any excuse
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Examples
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In particular, the commission found that the current Bishop of Limerick, Donal Murray, reacted "inexcusably" to one known case of clerical child abuse while he handled a number of other complaints and suspicions badly.
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What is it about the Ford Ka that attracts the kind of inexcusably-timid morons who should have never been rewarded with a driving licence?
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OK, after all that, I wish to thank Jim Bentein for sounding the alarm and appropriately so regarding the inexcusably irresponsible management of Lake Chapala and the Lerma Basin.
Water in Chapala 2009
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Bringing up other stuff (especially 20+ years old) that's completely irrelevant to this discussion is inexcusably partisan.
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On comes Barnett.66 min: Adebayor has a goal disallowed - quite right as he hjad inexcusably wandered a couple of yards offside, but a shame too, as Assou-Ekotto's pass to him was wonderful.
Norwich City v Tottenham Hotspur – as it happened | Paul Doyle 2011
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Using stock footage, staged interviews, and the kind of special effects that give meaning to the term, Allen and cinematographer Gordon Willis put together a marvelous, inexcusably forgotten masterpiece.
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I haven't been back to England in a very long time --- actually, an inexcusably long time --- but I got to know it pretty well years ago when I was studying at Cambridge for a semester.
Elissa Altman: The Brits and Their Veg: Can the Sunday Roast-Loving English Change the Way Americans Eat? Elissa Altman 2011
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OK, after all that, I wish to thank Jim Bentein for sounding the alarm and appropriately so regarding the inexcusably irresponsible management of Lake Chapala and the Lerma Basin.
Water in Chapala 2009
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I haven't been back to England in a very long time --- actually, an inexcusably long time --- but I got to know it pretty well years ago when I was studying at Cambridge for a semester.
Elissa Altman: The Brits and Their Veg: Can the Sunday Roast-Loving English Change the Way Americans Eat? Elissa Altman 2011
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OK, after all that, I wish to thank Jim Bentein for sounding the alarm and appropriately so regarding the inexcusably irresponsible management of Lake Chapala and the Lerma Basin.
Water in Chapala 2009
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