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Indefensible

adjective

(of theories etc) incapable of being defended or justified. Synonym: untenable.

Not able to be protected against attack.

Incapable of being justified or explained. Synonyms: insupportable, unjustifiable, unwarrantable, unwarranted.

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"Indefensible" Quotes from Famous Books

... our own Indian policy.... Wounded and disabled in our Indian wars... I know all about them and how indefensible ...

— A Straight Deal - or The Ancient Grudge • Owen Wister

... would put himself to no expense in defending the seat. Of course he, Sir Thomas, could do the same. He believed that it might be practicable for him to acknowledge the justice of the petition, to declare his belief that his own agents had betrayed him, and to acknowledge that his seat was indefensible. But, as he thought of it, he found that he was actually ignorant of the law in the matter. That he would make no such bargain as that suggested to him by Mr. Trigger,—of so much he thought that he was sure. At any rate he would do nothing that he himself knew to be dishonourable. He must ...

— Ralph the Heir • Anthony Trollope

... will be admitted; but it will be urged that the hampering and limiting with which we have been dealing is not merely legitimate but inevitable, whereas the hampering and limiting—should such there be—on the part of the Church is wholly illegitimate and indefensible. ...

— Science and Morals and Other Essays • Bertram Coghill Alan Windle

... law, logic or demand of justice could change Judge Hunt's will. We were convicted before we had a hearing and the trial was a mere farce." Some time afterwards Judge Selden wrote her: "I regard the ruling of the judge, and also his refusal to submit the case to the jury, as utterly indefensible." Scarcely a newspaper in the country sustained Judge Hunt's action. The Canandaigua Times thus expressed the general sentiment in an editorial, soon after ...

— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper

... arrangements. But we may perhaps take courage from history to hope that generations will come, to whom our system of distributing among a few the privileges and delights that are procured by the toil of the many, will seem just as wasteful, as morally hideous, and as scientifically indefensible, as that older system which impoverished and depopulated empires, in order that a despot or a caste might have no least wish ungratified, for which the lives or the hard-won ...

— Rousseau - Volumes I. and II. • John Morley

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