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View synonyms for inexcusable

inexcusable

[ in-ik-skyoo-zuh-buhl ]

adjective

  1. incapable of being excused or justified.

    Synonyms: unforgivable, unpardonable, intolerable



inexcusable

/ ˌɪnɪkˈskjuːzəbəl /

adjective

  1. not able to be excused or justified
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌinexˌcusaˈbility, noun
  • ˌinexˈcusably, adverb
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Other Words From

  • inex·cusa·bili·ty inex·cusa·ble·ness noun
  • inex·cusa·bly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of inexcusable1

1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin inexcūsābilis; in- 3, excuse ( def ), -able ( def )
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Example Sentences

Even if the Patriots had a 5 to 10 percent chance to win the game, not taking it is inexcusable.

Bernardo characterized Klein’s conduct as “outrageous” and “inexcusable,” and the Anderson School suspended Klein from teaching and banned him from campus.

The first two, though, ended in draws — an excusable one in El Salvador and an inexcusable one at home against Canada.

It is maddening and outrageous and completely inexcusable that Texas’s lack of sound utility regulation is having this impact on the rest of the country.

“Meyers Leonard’s comment was inexcusable and hurtful, and such an offensive term has no place in the NBA or in our society,” Commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement.

That kind of spoiled naïveté seems inexcusable in a clearly intelligent author who is pushing 30.

The lack of unity is “inexcusable and lets our party down,” he said.

Yes, it was a major and inexcusable fiasco, as I wrote last week.

Nothing makes their victory inevitable but the inexcusable assumption that it is.

That's an inexcusable lack of leadership from our political elites.

It is very inexcusable in him if he stops to play with any other boys, said the young lady, smiling.

And hardly a degree less menacing is this gigantic octapus of labor unionism—of inexcusable socialism.

Unless it is because of a dream, what you have just now told me is entirely inexcusable.

He thought it very wrong and selfish and quite inexcusable on the part of the Church authorities.

The protracted delays and inexcusable sluggishness of the leaders had borne their natural fruits.

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