Definitions
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- adjective Not capable of being
defended
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- adjective not defended or capable of being defended
Etymologies
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Examples
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"There was a time when flicks on at the near post were described as "undefendable" but then teams just stopped doing it," says Gary Naylor.
Ivory Coast v Zambia - as it happened | Jacob Steinberg 2012
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Chelsea goal: Deadlock broken and it's all thanks to a magnificent cross by Didier Drogba, which Pat Nevin on BBC 5 live describes as simply "undefendable".
BBC - Ouch 2010
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Chelsea goal: Deadlock broken and it's all thanks to a magnificent cross by Didier Drogba, which Pat Nevin on BBC 5 live describes as simply "undefendable".
BBC - Ouch 2010
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'undefendable' in a letter to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday.
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Racism is the last refuge of undefendable liberalism.
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I've harped on about this before, but was interested in Bryan Caplan's critqiue of the Levy-Peart project: I'm going after analytical egalitarians because they're wasting their talent and energy defending the undefendable.
Baffled by "Analytical Egalitarianism", Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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January 29th, 2009 at 10: 13 am most liberal policies are undefendable in a real debate
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Just like the Austrians, I'm going after analytical egalitarians because they're wasting their talent and energy defending the undefendable.
Baffled by "Analytical Egalitarianism", Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Makes sense, most liberal policies are undefendable in a real debate.
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Stop defending the undefendable just hate it like everyone else.
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