Vocabulary
Unconscionable
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
not right or reasonable.
Urdu meaning
بے اصول، بے ضمیر، ناقابل جواز
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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In these times of economic distress and high prices, blocking and delaying payments to retirees is unconscionable.
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Pension bottleneck
— 2026-01-17
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Communities in climate-vulnerable regions are showing remarkable resilience, but it is unconscionable that they are left to fend for themselves against forces of nature that grow more destructive by the year.
Dawn Editorials —
Citizen defenders
— 2025-08-25
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The `we cherish our values` West finds nothing unconscionable in this.
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Genocide keeps Bibi in saddle
— 2025-07-20
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He spoke candidly about unconscionable coercion, abductions, and harassment used by some forces to ensure the speediest promulgation of the 26th Amendment.
Dawn Editorials —
Moaning myrtles
— 2025-01-16
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Gaza is in cinders, leaving an unconscionable toll of a perpetually violated people, but not without wounding and unnerving the tormentors.
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As stags dazzled by headlights
— 2025-01-14
Synonyms
unethical, amoral, immoral, unprincipled, indefensible, wrong, unscrupulous, unfair
Antonyms
ethical, acceptable
Curator example
“the unconscionable conduct of his son”
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