What's the difference between inexpiable and unforgivable?

Inexpiable


Definition:

  • (a.) Admitting of no expiation, atonement, or satisfaction; as, an inexpiable crime or offense.
  • (a.) Incapable of being mollified or appeased; relentless; implacable.

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Unforgivable


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Comic writing can be a brutal, unforgiving business, yet it can produce great and multi-layered prose, combining comedy, pathos and satire.
  • (2) To somehow use the upcoming 2012 Olympics as a reason to do this is, in my opinion, unforgivably cynical.
  • (3) Obviously she’s probably felt for years that she was black on the inside and denied it all through her childhood ... since she’s transitioned and identifies herself as black, than we should just let her be and live her life in peace.” Mary Elizabeth Williams, a Salon writer, echoed those who said Dolezal’s alleged fraud was unforgivable.
  • (4) Hollande described Cahuzac's actions as an "unforgivable moral error".
  • (5) We had hounded Swales out, in an unforgiving public humiliation, for a childhood hero we believed would make us happy again.
  • (6) When money is tight, it’s simply unforgiveable to waste taxpayers’ money.
  • (7) In an escalating legal battle between mostly Republican-controlled states and the Obama administration over voter ID and other election laws, a panel of three judges in Washington DC found that the Texas legislation imposed "strict, unforgiving burdens on the poor" because of the cost and process involved in obtaining identification.
  • (8) By day, they roamed for miles under the unforgiving sun so they would not be around if the men with machine guns swooped in again.
  • (9) But as the trip to Scranton neared my emotions became uncontrollable, and the nights were unforgivably restless.
  • (10) By plotting the percent failing in the 1st year as a function of per cycle failure rates for perfect and imperfect use, it was concluded that the OM is fairly effective if used perfectly, extremely unforgiving of imperfect use, and moderately difficult to use perfectly.
  • (11) He had committed two unforgiveable crimes: seeking a rigorous inspection of US facilities; and pressing Saddam Hussein to sign the Chemical Weapons Convention, to help prevent the war George Bush was itching to wage.
  • (12) The independent inquiry into child sexual abuse in Rotherham, which involved the abuse of predominantly white girls by predominantly Pakistani men, even suggested that the unforgivable failure of the Labour council to take action was associated with a reluctance to broach ethnically sensitive issues.
  • (13) These are unforgiving times for people who want to expose what governments want kept secret.
  • (14) Moral leader The Daily Mail on the FA's refusal to comment on JT: "Even in the sleazy, venal world of football, Terry's record was unforgivable.
  • (15) In the Radio Times, the show's producer and director, Steven Moffat, lambasts the corporation's "outright stupidity and unforgivable blindness" in axing the show 24 years ago.
  • (16) Yet Van Gaal will know they have to be more streetwise to prosper in a competition that can be unforgiving.
  • (17) The 25-year-old footballer, who was released from prison on Friday having served half of a five-year sentence for raping a woman in a hotel room, told the Sunday Mirror in an interview conducted shortly before he was freed that cheating on his girlfriend was “unforgivable”.
  • (18) Miliband relented, and Balls took the exam, including clapping rhythmically, in the formal, unforgiving atmosphere music examiners love to generate.
  • (19) They involved not one error, but a whole chain of errors, and they are all essentially unforgiveable,” he said.
  • (20) But the pressure from ValueAct and other shareholders could be unforgiving.

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