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Synonyms for indefensible

impossible to excuse, pardon, or justify

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Synonyms for indefensible

(of theories etc) incapable of being defended or justified

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not able to be protected against attack

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incapable of being justified or explained

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Indeed, doesn't the whole of the ruling political leadership in the province sits in the dock indefensibly for taking no notice at all that a section of humanity on their domain were in terrible calamity?
He said the mechanic acted utterly indefensibly by making it impossible for Nissan to substantiate his allegations and trace allegedly defective cars.
Mr Paul Cavadino, director of the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders, said: "Jailing refugees beggars as a matter of course would be an indefensibly harsh response.
It is indefensibly a fraught venture that the political class is embarked upon, which could potentially explode and end up into unforeseen unpleasant consequences.
A near perfect song with a sample of Michael Heseltine (stoutly but indefensibly) defending the bombing of the Belgrano.
"They must also be aware that consumers will be much less comfortable with imports from Brazil, which relies on the continued destruction of the rain forest and the use of GM soya to maintain its beef output, while deliveries from Argentina will fall short of UK welfare standards and carry the additional stigma of being price competitive as a result of the indefensibly low wages paid to the peasant labour by the biggest ranches."
The Association of Care and Resettlement of Offenders called the findings "deeply disturbing" and said the sentencing was "indefensibly severe."
It was jarringly at odds with the most fundamental concepts of physics--not just wrong, but indefensibly and demonstrably wrong at every level and in every aspect of the argument that was presented (nearly "flat Earth" wrong).
Titled 'Diasporan Nigerian Scholars Fault US Report on Corruption, Insecurity,' the report quoted Gwamna and Agbese as describing the US State Department's 2018 human rights report on Nigeria, which every sober Nigerian knows to be factual and accurate, as 'legitimising the criminal activities of terrorists and extremists in Nigeria,' among other utterly ridiculous and indefensibly pedestrian, not to mention willfully mendacious, farrago of nonsense passed up as a press statement.
I FEEL compelled to raise one particular aspect of the Brexit debate that has been indefensibly overlooked, and deserves far greater scrutiny.
When schools and hospitals are buckling under Tory austerity and University Credit cuts cripple low-income families, how indefensibly wasteful to squander our precious resources on an extravagant society bash.
We can still recall the party-rightly- taking up arms against Khawaja Asif's indefensibly juvenile comment against Shireen Mazari in the parliament.
But in light of the proliferation of bullying-induced suicides in recent years, waving away kids' proclivity for death is indefensibly negligent: Children as young as eight are shooting or hanging themselves.
And child sexual abuse is indefensibly wrong, under any circumstance.