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UK
/ʌnpˈɑːdəʊnəbəl/
]
ADJECTIVE
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not admitting of pardon
unpardonable behavior
How To Use unpardonable In A Sentence
- Being horrified was an unpardonable self-indulgence in such circumstances and no use to Charley at all. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
- The Oxford elite, it appeared, had closed ranks and snubbed him for committing the unpardonable sin of pandering to a popular audience.
- The spiritualists called down thunder upon the head of the poet, whom they depicted as a vulgar and ribald lampooner who had not only committed the profanity of sneering at the mysteries of a higher state of life, but the more unpardonable profanity of sneering at the convictions of his own wife. Robert Browning
- Wind farms commit the unpardonable sin of being built on land that has ‘remained undisturbed for a thousand years’.
- He arrives just as a pub landlord is removing a customer for the unpardonable sin of having smiled at his gorgeous young wife.
- You were to do really advocate unpardonable thing!
- unpardonable behavior
- It was understandable that Montgomerie should have been happy with that, given how his golfing status had fallen last year and the major problems he encountered with the rules for a silly but unpardonable error in Indonesia.
- The crunch came in 1956 when, having committed the almost unpardonable offence of supporting a Labour private member's Bill to abolish hanging, he then abstained in the vote of confidence in the government over Suez.
- This cannot but be sheer sophism of a militarist fanatic and an unpardonable mockery of the Koreans.