unjustifiable
5
6.8
- adjective
- /ʌnˌdʒʌstɪˈfaɪəbl/
:
injustificable
- What are some of the unjustifiable reasons mothers keep their children away from their fathers?
- morally unjustifiable
- economically unjustifiable
Wholly unjustifiable claims are unlikely to get anywhere.
- Wholly unjustifiable claims are unlikely to get anywhere.
- All of this, for critics, was at once unjustifiable and the hallmark of decadent description.
- This was obviously preposterous and they couldn't have been defending a worse, more morally unjustifiable cause.
- I have to shoot and I also are recruited to justify unjustifiable behavior, to justify behaviors is I feared for my life.
Examples
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Despite these pilot studies, commercial production was still considered economically unjustifiable.
Academic text (1999) -
A half-dozen fluoroquinolones have been taken off the market because of unjustifiable risks of adverse effects.
Blog text (1) -
I never thought the protest at the start of the film was unjustifiable or over the top.
Blog text (21) -
Wholly unjustifiable claims are unlikely to get anywhere.
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If you are a peaceful human, why not just say that terrorism is wrong and unjustifiable?
Blog text (3) -
Any violence is unjustifiable.
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An undeclared, unauthorized, unjustifiable military intervention like this is simply par for the course.
Blog text (11) -
Araud added that Israel's use of force against the Turkish flotilla was unjustifiable and disproportionate.
Academic text (2010) -
After a later face-to-face encounter with Carl Schmitt, Pieper denounced the notorious lawyer's "flagrantly anti-Semitic statements" as unequivocally unjustifiable.
Academic text (2005) -
Charging hundreds of dollars for a round of golf is unjustifiable and unreasonable.
Synonyms
35
5.6
Too bad to be forgiven
31
7.0
Not having a good reason or official permission
27
8.2
Impossible to defend against criticism
24
7.5
People cannot show a decision or action is right when others criticize it
19
4.8
Not having a good reason for something
4
6.8
No one can show it is right
2
7.8
Impossible to defend or accept without proof
1
7.6
Not deserved because there is no good reason
1
8.1
An action or comment that no one can give a good reason for
1
9.2
Cannot be shown to be right or fair
Not possible to show as right or acceptable
Not able to be defended in an argument or court
Cannot be supported by proof or good reasons
Describes an absence or action with no permission and no good reason
Antonyms
How Justifiable
Surface Forms
Morphology
unjustifiable = justifiable (transparent) = un + just + able
Formed by negating the adjective 'justifiable' with the productive prefix 'un-', yielding a clear meaning 'not able to be justified'.
Etymology
The word unjustifiable breaks into the prefix un- meaning 'not' and justifiable, which comes from just meaning 'right' or 'fair', as in justice. So unjustifiable means something that cannot be shown to be 'right' or 'reasonable'.