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Webster 1828 Edition


Unconscionably

UNCON'SCIONABLY

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adv.
Unreasonably; in a manner or degree that conscience and reason do not justify.

Definition 2024


unconscionably

unconscionably

English

Adverb

unconscionably (comparative more unconscionably, superlative most unconscionably)

  1. In an unconscionable manner.
    • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 13, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
      […] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably. And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.