unpardonable


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unpardonable

(ʌnˈpɑːdənəbəl)
adj
not excusable; disgraceful
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.unpardonable - not admitting of pardonunpardonable - not admitting of pardon; "unpardonable behavior"
pardonable - admitting of being pardoned
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unpardonable

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unpardonable

adjective
Impossible to excuse, pardon, or justify:
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Translations

unpardonable

[ʌnˈpɑːdnəbl] ADJimperdonable, indisculpable
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unpardonable

[ʌnˈpɑːrdənəbəl] adjimpardonnable
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unpardonable

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unpardonable

[ʌnˈpɑːdnəbl] adjimperdonabile
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References in classic literature ?
"Edward's love for me," said Lucy, "has been pretty well put to the test, by our long, very long absence since we were first engaged, and it has stood the trial so well, that I should be unpardonable to doubt it now.
He recognised himself as being personally interested in the wager, and trembled at the thought that he might have been the means of losing it by his unpardonable folly of the night before.
It is the unpardonable sin now; is there the memory of an unkindness to stalk the street with him to-night?
Eben Wright said it must cost an awful lot to put in four years at Redmond; and I felt all over me that it was unpardonable of me to squander Marilla's money and my own on such a folly.
But his pride, his abominable pride-- his shameless avowal of what he had done with respect to Jane-- his unpardonable assurance in acknowledging, though he could not justify it, and the unfeeling manner in which he had mentioned Mr.
He knew her opinion of him, and would write, 'My ears tingled yesterday; I sair doubt she has been miscalling me again.' But the more she miscalled him the more he delighted in her, and she was informed of this, and at once said, 'The scoundrel!' If you would know what was his unpardonable crime, it was this: he wrote better books than mine.
Wild as I believe your plans to be--you have not the slightest chance of succeeding in carrying them out--I admire your courage, your fidelity, your unshaken faith in my unhappy son, after his unpardonable behavior to you.
Her father worried so much over believing that he had committed the unpardonable sin that he died in the asylum.
I am obliged to be a little stiff with him sometimes, or he would make a complete slave of me; and I know it would be unpardonable weakness to give up all other interests for him.
I protest, if he be such a man as the wench described him to you, it is but an office of charity to keep her from him; and I am sure it would be unpardonable in me to do otherwise, who have tasted so bitterly of the misfortunes attending such marriages."
She flew over it like a bird; but at the same instant Vronsky, to his horror, felt that he had failed to keep up with the mare's pace, that he had, he did not know how, made a fearful, unpardonable mistake, in recovering his seat in the saddle.
Cosmus, duke of Florence, had a desperate saying against perfidious or neglecting friends, as if those wrongs were unpardonable; You shall read (saith he) that we are commanded to forgive our enemies; but you never read, that we are commanded to forgive our friends.