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adjective

Unconscionable adj.

Not conscionable; exceeding the limits of any reasonable claim or expectation; not conforming to reason; unreasonable; inordinate; extravagant; as, an unconscionable person or demand; unconscionable size. "Which use of reason, most reasonless and unconscionable, is the utmost that any tyrant ever pretended." "His giantship is gone somewhat crestfallen, Stalking with less unconscionable strides."

Not guided by, or conformed to, conscience; that cannot be done in good conscience; as, unconscionable profits. "Ungenerous as well as unconscionable practices."

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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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