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unconscionable
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  • Call thought it was unconscionable to leave any woman alone that long in such rough country.†   (source)
  • The unfairness of this seemed unconscionable to me.†   (source)
  • I find such a fee unconscionable.†   (source)
  • But that Jefferson could so matter-of-factly consider selling off his slaves—not freeing them—and so readily transfer the burdens of his own extravagances to the backs of those he held in bondage, would have struck Adams as unconscionable, and would no doubt have been a serious test of his respect, if not affection, for the man.†   (source)
  • Mary said afterwards that he hummed and ha'd for an unconscionable time while he examined the baby in minutest detail.†   (source)
  • It's—it's unconscionable!†   (source)
  • Abandoning the search for Mark Blackthorn, sending Helen Blackthorn to Wrangel Island—that was unconscionable cruelty.†   (source)
  • You're wasting an unconscionable amount of manpower and time, carting your ore on muleback.†   (source)
  • In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.†   (source)
  • "I understand his man Bolton is stabling goats in my high hall, it's really quite unconscionable."†   (source)
  • This complicated procedure was designed to ensure that the throw was truly "random"; but, in the event, it inevitably resulted in my losing sight of the hoop entirely, and having to spend an unconscionable time searching for the thing.†   (source)
  • I found the privacy itself seduction enough, but there was also a bidet, which lent a risque note and, electrically, unconscionably stirred my expectations.†   (source)
  • It was unconscionable to involve a child—even one so obviously gifted—in such risky endeavors.†   (source)
  • It would be unconscionable of me to deprive Lord Vargo of both his prizes.†   (source)
  • That was an unconscionable assault upon my privacy!†   (source)
  • The God that created man in his own image, Mr. McLean, must be a vile, unconscionable being.†   (source)
  • In the barracks I learned much of what there was to know about my times, my unconscionable century.†   (source)
  • It took him a long time to find the Corps Day entry for 1966, an unconscionably long time.†   (source)
  • Every time I went against him I was unconscionably overmatched.†   (source)
  • With his shovel and a wobbly wheelbarrow, he carted away mounds of rotting hay, filthy laundry, and unconscionable mounds of waste.†   (source)
  • He advanced upon Straavh, circling and darting, taking unconscionable risks before slipping just out of reach.†   (source)
  • I would walk along the dark galleries, from arch to arch, from cadre to merciless cadre, from taming to taming, from system to unconscionable system for as long as I lived.†   (source)
  • By ten o'clock she was again quite befuddled and unsteady of gait—as was I, for that matter, with an unconscionable amount of beer stowed away—and so we took a taxi back to the hotel.†   (source)
  • But the very thought was unconscionable and I belatedly realized, while I stood there in silence watching, that it was wrong enough of me to have stolen in on her in this way and violated her privacy, so I announced myself with a small cough.†   (source)
  • The baby was, to reverse an epigram, an unconscionable time in getting born; but when Gant finally awoke just after ten o'clock next morning, whimpering from tangled nerves, and the quivering shame of dim remembrance, he heard, as he drank the hot coffee Helen brought to him, a loud, long lungy cry above.†   (source)
  • The sustained and dazzling flickers seemed to last for an unconscionable time.†   (source)
  • The moon took an unconscionably long time to rise that night, Milly thought.†   (source)
  • He held it for the tenth part of a second, for three strides of the man—an unconscionable time.†   (source)
  • "There is an unconscionable old shark for you!" said Herbert.†   (source)
  • She kept me waiting at the foot an unconscionable time—it was certainly three in the morning before we knocked up that minister.†   (source)
  • What held him back were scruples of conscience—although it was patently most unconscionable to pay no attention to time.†   (source)
  • Thus they sidled slowly onward till it struck her they had been advancing for an unconscionable time—far longer than was usually occupied by the short journey from Chaseborough, even at this walking pace, and that they were no longer on hard road, but in a mere trackway.†   (source)
  • Mr Blandois, in his most gentlemanly manner, was afraid he had disturbed her by unhappily presenting himself at such an unconscionable time.†   (source)
  • I know that the Connecticut settlers talk about their West Herfield meeting-house; but I never believe more than half what they say, they are such unconscionable braggers.†   (source)
  • Quite the reverse; he has consistently done nothing but fume at being so unconscionably heavily taxed.†   (source)
  • It's really an unconscionable age.†   (source)
  • Newman led his usual life, made acquaintances, took his ease in the galleries and churches, spent an unconscionable amount of time in strolling in the Piazza San Marco, bought a great many bad pictures, and for a fortnight enjoyed Venice grossly.†   (source)
  • It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless and indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom--Free Trade.†   (source)
  • It is the peculiar province, for instance, of a court of equity to relieve against what are called hard bargains: these are contracts in which, though there may have been no direct fraud or deceit, sufficient to invalidate them in a court of law, yet there may have been some undue and unconscionable advantage taken of the necessities or misfortunes of one of the parties, which a court of equity would not tolerate.†   (source)
  • I can tell your worship it is commonly said in this town that there are no people worse than the market-women, for they are all barefaced, unconscionable, and impudent, and I can well believe it from what I have seen of them in other towns.†   (source)
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