Sample sentences for UNCONSCIONABLE

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Definition

excessively unreasonable or immoral

The proposed budget is unconscionable given the debt it puts on the backs of the younger generation.

unconscionable = excessively unreasonable or immoral

She described the monitoring of sermons as unconstitutional and unconscionable.

unconscionable = excessively unreasonable or immoral

Millions of our children, our most precious natural resource, are being victimized by a tragic and unconscionable epidemic of child abuse and neglect.
Dave Pelzer -- A Child Called It
Abandoning the search for Mark Blackthorn, sending Helen Blackthorn to Wrangel Island—that was unconscionable cruelty.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Heavenly Fire
Quite the reverse; he has consistently done nothing but fume at being so unconscionably heavily taxed.
Henrik Ibsen -- An Enemy of the People
"This is unconscionable," says DuPont.
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
"There is an unconscionable old shark for you!" said Herbert.
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations
What held him back were scruples of conscience—although it was patently most unconscionable to pay no attention to time.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
You're wasting an unconscionable amount of manpower and time, carting your ore on muleback.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
It's really an unconscionable age.
George Eliot -- Adam Bede
It's—it's unconscionable!
Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan
The unfairness of this seemed unconscionable to me.
Alice Sebold -- Lucky
With his shovel and a wobbly wheelbarrow, he carted away mounds of rotting hay, filthy laundry, and unconscionable mounds of waste.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
Mr Blandois, in his most gentlemanly manner, was afraid he had disturbed her by unhappily presenting himself at such an unconscionable time.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
The sustained and dazzling flickers seemed to last for an unconscionable time.
Joseph Conrad -- Lord Jim
Call thought it was unconscionable to leave any woman alone that long in such rough country.
Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
He noted that a number of the accused had been held in solitary confinement for unconscionable lengths of time.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
The moon took an unconscionably long time to rise that night, Milly thought.
Zane Grey -- The Thundering Herd
Mary said afterwards that he hummed and ha'd for an unconscionable time while he examined the baby in minutest detail.
John Wyndham -- The Chrysalids
It would be unconscionable.
Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance

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