What's the difference between inexcusable and unpardonable?

Inexcusable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not excusable; not admitting excuse or justification; as, inexcusable folly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In his letter to the BBC, the ambassador wrote: "The presenters of the programme resorted to outrageous, vulgar and inexcusable insults to stir bigoted feelings against the Mexican people, their culture as well as their official representative in the United Kingdom.
  • (2) A civil rights group linked to a mostly white trade union described the students actions as "inexcusable".
  • (3) He may be victim of an incorrigible cronyism, and his overdue attempt to reform Britain’s welfare state has left many rough edges, some of them inexcusable.
  • (4) Khan said on Twitter that the comments were “appalling and inexcusable”, and there must be no place for them in the party.
  • (5) All the interviews supported the notion of an arbitrary norm for pay, which almost all firms felt was grossly and inappropriately high … The general view of search firms is that a lower norm would not materially affect what happens.” One headhunter said: “I think there are an awful lot of FTSE 100 CEOs who are pretty mediocre.” Another added: “I think that the wage drift over the past 10 years, or the salary drift, has been inexcusable, incomprehensible, and it is very serious for the social fabric of the country.” The findings are being made public just as an analysis by the High Pay Centre thinktank shows that the average pay of a chief executive – including pensions, share options and bonuses – stands at about £4.6m.
  • (6) In a recent interview with industry news source GamesIndustry.Biz , Will Wright, the creator of both SimCity and The Sims, branded the server issues, "inexcusable": "That you charge somebody $60 for a game and they can't play it.
  • (7) Dentists are just as susceptible to disease as other humans, and the tragedy of a wasted life as a result of alcoholism is inexcusable with our level of knowledge of alcoholism programs today.
  • (8) But mainly what we all wore in the 90s was inexcusable crap – not fashion, not statements, just crap.
  • (9) Madeleine McCann The report is scathing, saying that newspapers were guilty of "an inexcusable lowering of press standards" in reporting the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in 2007.
  • (10) Was it the boisterous intrusion of her tone, the inexcusability of the phrase "lonely only", or the idea of strapping on skates as a euphemism for – what exactly?
  • (11) Addressing the overall context of the riots and the "abuse of modern technology", the lord chief justice, Lord Judge, said: "The level of lawlessness was shocking and wholly inexcusable.
  • (12) In slightly more measured terms, President Barack Obama described the accusations as "hateful, offensive and inexcusable".
  • (13) He has also called for an extension to transportation bills, warning that up to a million jobs are at stake and calling it "inexcusable" that "political gamesmanship" is threatening both jobs and the nation's crumbling infrastructure.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sean Spicer on Assad regime: ‘Even Hitler didn’t use chemical weapons’ Despite one more ineffective attempt to make things right (“Any attack on innocent people is reprehensible and inexcusable.”) Spicer’s combination of callousness and historical amnesia inspired a range of critics – from Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi to Steven Goldstein, director of the Anne Frank Center – to demand that he be fired.
  • (15) Remarks made while reviewing a Mexican car by Top Gear hosts Hammond, Jeremy Clarkson and James May prompted an angry reaction from the country's UK ambassador, who accused the popular show of making "outrageous, vulgar and inexcusable insults" .
  • (16) Michael Grade, ITV's chairman, called the mistake "inexcusable" and began an internal inquiry, while the Football Association wanted an explanation.
  • (17) The timing – on Holocaust Memorial Day – was inexcusable.
  • (18) Vince Cable has disowned his long-term political ally Lord Oakeshott, accusing him of commissioning polls showing the party trailing badly in four seats including Nick Clegg's own and described this as "totally inexcusable and unacceptable".
  • (19) Let's stop the pretending: Blatcherism has been an inexcusable missed opportunity to take Britain in a completely different direction (towards Denmark rather than America) and it has significantly contributed to our spiralling rate of mental illness.
  • (20) Michel Platini, the Uefa president, said the remarkable scenes on Tuesday were “inexcusable”.

Unpardonable


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The country’s defence minister, Han Min-koo, said the nuclear test was an “unpardonable provocation seriously threatening peace and stability in the entire Asia-Pacific region and the Korean peninsula”.
  • (2) To even consider building new runways and coal-fired power stations at this juncture in history is an unpardonable folly, but Gordon Brown seems determined to stumble forward regardless with his ill-conceived plans in the face of the science and widespread public opposition."
  • (3) Abstention from radiological investigation as a primary requisite is unpardonable and can leave irreversible sequels.