UNJUSTIFIABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unjustifiable mean? 

• UNJUSTIFIABLE (adjective)
  The adjective UNJUSTIFIABLE has 1 sense:

1. incapable of being justified or explained

  Familiarity information: UNJUSTIFIABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNJUSTIFIABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Incapable of being justified or explained

Synonyms:

indefensible; insupportable; unjustifiable; unwarrantable; unwarranted

Similar:

inexcusable (without excuse or justification)

 Context examples 

It was a most unjustifiable action.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Lady Catherine's unjustifiable endeavours to separate us were the means of removing all my doubts.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It was an unjustifiable experiment even for one’s self, and doubly so for a friend.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was sure Sir Thomas had never intended it: and she must say that, to be making such a purchase in his absence, and adding to the great expenses of his stable, at a time when a large part of his income was unsettled, seemed to her very unjustifiable.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Marianne began now to perceive that the desperation which had seized her at sixteen and a half, of ever seeing a man who could satisfy her ideas of perfection, had been rash and unjustifiable.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He felt himself bound as much in honour as in affection to Miss Morland, and believing that heart to be his own which he had been directed to gain, no unworthy retraction of a tacit consent, no reversing decree of unjustifiable anger, could shake his fidelity, or influence the resolutions it prompted.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

“But to expose the former faults of any person without knowing what their present feelings were, seemed unjustifiable. We acted with the best intentions.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Yes, continued Elinor, gathering more resolution, as some of the worst was over, Colonel Brandon means it as a testimony of his concern for what has lately passed—for the cruel situation in which the unjustifiable conduct of your family has placed you—a concern which I am sure Marianne, myself, and all your friends, must share; and likewise as a proof of his high esteem for your general character, and his particular approbation of your behaviour on the present occasion.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He had suffered, and he had learned to think: two advantages that he had never known before; and the self-reproach arising from the deplorable event in Wimpole Street, to which he felt himself accessory by all the dangerous intimacy of his unjustifiable theatre, made an impression on his mind which, at the age of six-and-twenty, with no want of sense or good companions, was durable in its happy effects.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)