defensible

How To Use defensible In A Sentence

• The move would draw flak, but would be defensible. Times, Sunday Times
• On the contrary; it's perfectly logical and defensible. Times, Sunday Times
• How do we make legitimate and defensible distinctions between medically necessary and superfluous therapy?
• It is true that Herbert Butterfield remarked that the trick of writing history lay in ‘the art of abridgement’, but abridgement must be both sensible and defensible.
• Macarthy, the defence lawyer, found himself in the position of trying to defend the indefensible and justify the unjustifiable.
• Name withheld No, it is not morally defensible. Times, Sunday Times
• It is absurd and morally indefensible to continue with a policy that causes so much hardship, misery and wastes councils' time and resources. Times, Sunday Times
• But that doesn't justify this behavior, which is indefensible on several grounds.
• This means that universal credit changes will today become politically indefensible. Times, Sunday Times
• It is not morally defensible to recycle failing teachers around the system. Times, Sunday Times