(a.) Governed by, or according to, conscience; reasonable; just.
Example Sentences:
(1) They imply that it is a matter of weighty regret that things have now reached a pass where their only conscionable option is to declare "thus far and no further".
(2) And ask just how conscionable is it to live in a state that locks up a vastly disproportionate number of black men and women, and sentences many of them to death.
(3) Isolate requirements must be embed in a general conscions processing of social informations.
(4) Yet corruption in Fifa is clearly very conscionable indeed, because our collective conscience has borne it all too well.
Unconscionable
Definition:
(a.) Not conscionable; not conforming to reason; unreasonable; exceeding the limits of any reasonable claim or expectation; inordinate; as, an unconscionable person or demand; unconscionable size.
(a.) Not guided by, or conformed to, conscience.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fact that they failed to do so is beyond terrible – it’s unconscionable.” Lichter Immigration, where Cintron works, has filed multiple state bar complaints against Taylor Lee & Associates on behalf of five women, including Lourdes Chavez Ramirez.
(2) This paper, presented as part of a panel on the subject, has propounded the view that the defense is unconscionable, using that aspect of the definition dealing with unreasonableness.
(3) The ACCC has accused both companies of engaging in conduct that was unconscionable under Australian consumer laws.
(4) It is unconscionable that she languished in prison for years while those allegedly implicated by the information she revealed still haven’t been brought to justice.” But the commutation was condemned by leading Republicans.
(5) It’s unconscionable that a person can be shot that many times in the back,” Burris said.
(6) While California is facing record drought conditions, it is unconscionable that Nestlé would continue to bottle the state’s precious water, export it and sell it for profit,” says the petition, which is sponsored by the political activist organisation the Courage Campaign.
(7) College accused of 'luring vulnerable students' with free laptops Read more The ACCC chairman, Rod Sims, told Guardian Australia: “We are making allegations that have got to be tested in court but, that said, this sort of behaviour is about as concerning as we run across.” Last month the ACCC initiated a case against the Sydney-based Unique International College, accusing it of “unconscionable conduct” including targeting vulnerable and illiterate people with offers of free laptop computers if they signed up to diploma courses.
(8) President Nixon has referred to the "unconscionably abuse" of the defense.
(9) During the trial's closing arguments Donald's lawyer, Max Blecher, accused Shelly of an "unconscionable", "devious" and "invidious" scheme to strip him of the Clippers.
(10) Name-checking cities such as Misrata and Ajdabiya, besieged and attacked by government forces, was intended to bring home the brutal reality of what the presidents and prime minister warned would be an "unconscionable betrayal" if the Libyan leader did not depart.
(11) Given the stakes, it is unconscionable that high-CBD marijuana continues to be federally classified as a Schedule I drug, meaning that it has "no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse", and the mere act of transporting it from Colorado to another state – even one where it has been legalized – is illegal .
(12) Not only were there unconscionable delays in providing the children with basic medical care, psychological support, shelter, food, or protection, but no steps were taken to locate the additional child victims ... to determine if they also required protection and care,” the report states.
(13) "Given this extraordinarily severe repression, it would be unconscionable for the council to continue limiting its work on North Korea to the nuclear issue.
(14) "It is ridiculous and unconscionable the way they put themselves at the service of Israel in such a blatant way.
(15) It’s unconscionable, from a perspective of a criminal prosecution – or an interrogation, for that matter.” Mark Fallon, deputy commander of the now-shuttered Criminal Investigative Task Force at Guantánamo, said Zuley’s interrogation of Slahi “was illegal, it was immoral, it was ineffective and it was unconstitutional.” It is unknown if Zuley interrogated other Guantánamo detainees.
(16) Corruption, wherever it is, and however it is visited on Africa, is unconscionable.
(17) It would be unconscionable to put this trial off to September 2015 with the second trial being heard in 2016.
(18) Opting out of vaccines or insisting on a schedule for administering them, as McCarthy now suggests, that puts others at risk (because your own child could be protected by herd immunity) is unconscionably selfish.
(19) Behind almost all of Barak's moves, Arafat believed he could discern the objective of either forcing him to swallow an unconscionable deal, or mobilising the world to isolate and weaken the Palestinians.
(20) To go beyond them with between £24bn and £50bn of extra spending cuts and tax rises, as is rumoured for Tuesday, is unconscionable and will rightly be challenged.