indefensible

How To Use indefensible In A Sentence

• Macarthy, the defence lawyer, found himself in the position of trying to defend the indefensible and justify the unjustifiable.
• 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
• The fact that he cites, in his defense, a first class degree from Cambridge ‘specializing in philosophy’ only makes more indefensible his howlers and misconceptions.
• It is bad enough we find ourselves in an intellectually indefensible position. The Sun
• To argue otherwise is trying to defend the indefensible.
• The fact that it is possible for a doctor to continue to practice for decades after qualification without ever opening a book or taking any other steps to keep up to date has long seemed indefensible.
• From describing the Iraqi insurgency as being in its "last throes" (when it was patently just getting revved up for its second throes) to calling the acceptability of waterboarding a "no-brainer" (when even the people who conduct it say that the information it yields cannot be relied upon), he continues to defend the indefensible with the implausible and the discredited. Ellis Weiner: International Man of Mystery
• To do so would clearly be morally indefensible. Times, Sunday Times