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adjective

unconscionable

lacking a conscience

In a sentence

Six example sentences with unconscionable, each labelled with its topic.

  • The tribunal called the landlord unconscionable, a man who raised rents on tenants he knew had nowhere to go.

    Law

  • An unconscionable operator sold the same warehouse twice and slept perfectly well until the second buyer arrived with movers.

    Business

  • Dickens gives us an unconscionable schoolmaster who underfeeds the boys and bills their parents for meals never served.

    Literature

  • The lender charged an unconscionable rate to borrowers who could not read the contract, and the regulator finally shut it down.

    Finance

  • The senator called the delay unconscionable, since the aid had sat in a warehouse while the flooded town waited.

    Politics

  • The film's unconscionable landlord evicts a family on New Year's Eve and then complains about the noise of their leaving.

    Movies

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