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/ənkˈɑnʃənəbəl/ Listen

adjective

Unconscionable adj.

Not conscionable; exceeding the limits of any reasonable claim or expectation; not conforming to reason; unreasonable; inordinate; extravagant; as, an unconscionable person or demand; unconscionable size. "Which use of reason, most reasonless and unconscionable, is the utmost that any tyrant ever pretended." "His giantship is gone somewhat crestfallen, Stalking with less unconscionable strides."

Not guided by, or conformed to, conscience; that cannot be done in good conscience; as, unconscionable profits. "Ungenerous as well as unconscionable practices."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Unconscionable" Quotes from Famous Books

... shall have sent in mine to the King of Hosts. I moved slightly in my chair, and a twinge of the little pain inside brought a gasp to my throat. But I felt grateful to it. It was saving me from an unconscionable deal of worry. Fancy going to a confounded office every morning like a clerk in the City! I was happier at peace. I rose and warmed myself by the ...

— Simon the Jester • William J. Locke

... house in Mr. Bates' time. He was a thin middle-aged man, with light watery eyes, a straggling beard, and an astoundingly dilatory manner. He used to pull his pony and cart into the hedge or bank by the roadside, and leave them there an unconscionable time, while he pottered about the back doors of his customers, offering the articles that he had brought with him, or trying to obtain orders for other articles that he would bring next week; and although apparently so shy himself, no bruskness in others ever seemed ...

— The Devil's Garden • W. B. Maxwell

... much like a sister to me," he ventured again, "that I didn't stop to think; and only—only acted on the very same impulse I would if you actually were my sister!" (Oh, Brent, you unconscionable liar!) ...

— Sunlight Patch • Credo Fitch Harris

... gaily, using her name for the first time and seemingly unconscious that he had done so. "It's been extremely charitable of you to give this jay house-room for so long." He scratched another match, lit his cigarette and laughed again. "I wonder if I could have been such an unconscionable donkey as I looked." ...

— Other People's Business - The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale • Harriet L. Smith

... day the Princess Ziska herself never left her private apartments, and towards late afternoon Gervase began to feel the hours drag along with unconscionable slowness and monotony. Never did the sun seem so slow in sinking; never did the night appear so far off. When at last dinner was served in the hotel, both Denzil Murray and Dr. Dean sat next to him at table, and, judging ...

— Ziska - The Problem of a Wicked Soul • Marie Corelli

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