(adv.) With a degree of guilt or folly beyond excuse or justification.
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”.
Outright
Definition:
(adv.) Immediately; without delay; at once; as, he was killed outright.
(adv.) Completely; utterly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
(2) However, Pearson is understood to have believed an offer from News Corporation to buy Penguin outright would not have been financially viable.
(3) Although the cranes swing, much of the new living zones now being created range from the ho-hum to the outright catastrophic.
(4) A debate exists within civil libertarian circles about the value of holding out for an outright expiration of Section 215.
(5) This provides a valid basis for adjustment of assay results or for outright rejection of an assay.
(6) By creating an environment of intolerance – one could even say outright hostility – towards an already besieged community, the laws have fostered a surge of anti-gay violence across the country.
(7) The Gayes’ lawyer branded Williams and Thicke liars who went beyond trying to emulate the sound of Gaye’s late-1970s music and copied the R&B legend’s hit Got to Give It Up outright.
(8) However, the over-riding view is that with Global's plan to buy GMG Radio outright all but thwarted, senior executives at German-owned Bauer will be breathing a sigh of relief.
(9) But the crowd at Bob Jones University did not seem to care for the journalism of the New York Times, or that Cruz senior has recently said that LGBT activists will try to “legalise pedophilia”, that it is “ appalling ” that Houston has a gay mayor, and that he has opined that President Obama is an “outright Marxist” who should go “back to Kenya” .
(10) Her party was denied an outright majority by one seat, after a tie with the Lib Dems led to the result being decided by drawing lots.
(11) "A second Greek bailout is almost certain to result in outright losses for taxpayers further down the road because, even with the help of additional money, Greece remains likely to default within the next few years," said Raoul Ruparel, analyst at the Open Europe think tank.
(12) ‘Like the poshest hostage video ever’: our columnists on the Queen’s speech | Panel Read more The latest public attitudes survey by the National Centre for Social Research suggests that Euroscepticism – measured by the 43% of Scottish voters who want the EU’s powers to be cut or the 17% it records as wanting to leave outright – is at a record high in Scotland .
(13) People eagerly accept such evidence-free claims "because the alternative mean[s] confronting outright mendacity from otherwise respected authorities, trading the calm of certainty for the disquiet of doubt".
(14) They had inhabited their house as long, and by this time owned it outright.
(15) She has also slammed the “illogical and outright offensive” language used by those against same-sex marriage.
(16) We do not state outright that named foreign brands can be linked to factories employing child labour,” the ODI report says.
(17) The government's early defence of Jeremy Hunt against the barrage of criticism over his apparent closeness to News Corp centred on the charge that Frédéric Michel , News Corp's in-house lobbyist, had exaggerated, even outright distorted, accounts of his contact with Hunt and his team.
(18) They showed that the presidential election will go to a second round, after no candidate reached the 50% needed for an outright win.
(19) Still, Rafsanjani – often accused of sitting on the fence – did not call outright for an annulment.
(20) Since the two chambers have equal powers, a government must secure outright majorities in both for its legislation.