Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or state of being indefensible.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of not being defensible.
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- noun The quality or state of not being
defensible .
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Examples
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Secondly, the argument about the indefensibility of the 1967 borders completely ignores the conventional military and nuclear superiority of Israel.
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This idiot move of Huckabee's -- probably the best he can come up with given the craven indefensibility of his actions in the Dumond case -- simply highlights what his "compassion" caused: the needless brutal murder of one and perhaps two women.
Huckabee Mounts Counterattack Against Romney Over Paroled Rapist Story 2009
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The justness of the cause, the moral bankruptcy of segregation and the indefensibility of the system had a lot more to do with it.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Gay Rights Group Planning to Publicly Out Signers of Referendum Petition: 2009
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Still, even if you had been correct on the points you raised, the others are sufficient to point out the indefensibility of Biblical literalism.
A pop quiz for Biblical literalists | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009
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The justness of the cause, the moral bankruptcy of segregation and the indefensibility of the system had a lot more to do with it.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Gay Rights Group Planning to Publicly Out Signers of Referendum Petition: 2009
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The Republicans, in the face of Obama's ascendancy and the indefensibility of their policy decisions in the last eight years, have just pulled a desperation maneuver and hijacked what is perhaps the most important election in America's history by demoting it to an emotional cat-fight between pro-choice and pro-life women, over the one issue where neither side can be reasonable.
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After an exchange such as that described above, for example, it is definitely NOT as though my interlocutor will adjust his or her thinking to take into account the indefensibility and incoherence that has been demonstrated about the "God defines the good" position.
Traditionalists' Muddled Thinking About God and the Good: A Bit of Philosophy 2006
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DE KLERK: The aspect of the moral indefensibility, the wrongness of it, because it failed to bring justice, was the driving force for me and I think the driving force for the majority of the people in my party.
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I mean that the ABSOLUTE indefensibility of it might bring her a recklessness and a momentum which might -- '
The Pool in the Desert Sara Jeannette Duncan
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On the other hand, these odious principles are already so extensively discussed, and have been so clearly laid down in all their indefensibility, that I may here deal with them briefly.
Freie wissenschaft und freie lehr. English Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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