unconscionable
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
unconscionable
- Not conscionable; unscrupulous and lacking principles or conscience.
- 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, p364)
- When Roger assured him that prospects "looked very good" for a retrial, even a reversal of the verdict, since Roger had discovered "unconscionable errors" in the trial, Jackson grunted in bemusement and smiled with half his mouth.
- 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, p364)
- Excessive, imprudent or unreasonable.
- The effective rate of interest was unconscionable, but not legally usurious.
- French: sans scrupules
- German: unverschämt, skrupellos, gewissenlos
- Italian: senza scrupoli
- Portuguese: inescrupuloso
- Russian: бессо́вестный
- Spanish: inescrupuloso
- German: unverschämt, unverhältnismäßig
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