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/ənkˈɑnʃənəbəl/ Listen

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

... —What an unconscionable jointure, my dear, do we pay out of this small estate of ours, quoth my grandmother to ...

— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman • Laurence Sterne

... matters as horses, guns, dogs, desert island games, and such like. When she laughed at him for not being able to ride he shut his teeth hard not to remind her he'd never possessed a shetland pony from birth as she had, also he rose at an unconscionable early hour and rode in the cold winter's dawn round and round the exercising yard with the young grooms, while Patricia was warm and fast asleep in bed. But he had his reward when Mr. Aston, who had heard of his doings from the stud-groom, ...

— Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker • Marguerite Bryant

... finding me there, that I must have received her advances with a certain amount of absence of mind. I was out of that room and down the ladder in under half a minute. She kept me waiting at the foot an unconscionable time—it was certainly three in the morning before we knocked up that minister. And I think that that wait was the only sign Florence ever showed of having a conscience as far as I was concerned, unless her lying for some moments in my arms was also a sign of conscience. I fancy that, if I had shown ...

— The Good Soldier • Ford Madox Ford

... only satisfied with their main institutions, but regarded them with exaggerated complacency. But, though there was no organic disorder, there were plenty of abuses to be remedied. The ruling class, it seemed, did its duties in the main, but took unconscionable perquisites in return. If it 'farmed' them, it was right that it should have a beneficial interest in the concern; but that interest might be excessive. In many directions abuses were growing up which required remedy, though not a subversion of the system under which they had ...

— The English Utilitarians, Volume I. • Leslie Stephen

... 1661 Marvell was returned for the third and last time for Hull, for Charles the Second's first Parliament was of unconscionable long duration, not being dissolved till January 1679, after Marvell's death. It is known in history as the Pensionary or Long Parliament. The ...

— Andrew Marvell • Augustine Birrell

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