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Unconscionable   /ənkˈɑnʃənəbəl/   Listen
Unconscionable

adjective
1.
Lacking a conscience.  Synonym: conscienceless.  "Brash, unprincipled, and conscienceless" , "An unconscionable liar"
2.
Greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation.  Synonyms: exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, steep, usurious.  "Extortionate prices" , "Spends an outrageous amount on entertainment" , "Usurious interest rate" , "Unconscionable spending"






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"Unconscionable" Quotes from Famous Books



... rid of the whole pack of you. And now, forsooth, that you have grown out of childhood, long petticoats, chicken-pox, small-pox, whooping-cough, scarlet fever, and the other delectable accidents of puerile life, what must that unconscionable woman propose but to arrange the south rooms as a nursery for possible grandchildren, and set up the Captain with a wife, and make him marry early because we did! He is too fond, she says, of Brookes's and Goosetree's ...
— The Virginians • William Makepeace Thackeray

... Kate was an unconscionable time in dressing, Hugh thought, as he waited in the office, considering that the flour sack tied behind her saddle had seemed to ...
— The Fighting Shepherdess • Caroline Lockhart

... that indicated elation, though his visage expressed nothing but stolidity, slightly tinged with surprise. On the fourth day the cradles were made, and a very large portion of their gains thereby swept away in consequence of the unconscionable prices charged for every article used in their construction. However, this mattered little, Maxton said, as the increased profits of their labour would soon repay the outlay. And he was right. On the fifth ...
— The Golden Dream - Adventures in the Far West • R.M. Ballantyne

... we were all a little Murger-mad in the Latin Quarter. The play of the Vie de Boheme (a dreary, snivelling piece) had been produced at the Odeon, had run an unconscionable time—for Paris, and revived the freshness of the legend. The same business, you may say, or there and thereabout, was being privately enacted in consequence in every garret of the neighbourhood, and a good third ...
— The Wrecker • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

... not—not just yet," he protested. "It is so long, Miss Masters, since I have seen you alone. That is my excuse for having remained such an unconscionable time. I have to seize ...
— A Comedy of Masks - A Novel • Ernest Dowson and Arthur Moore


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