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Indefensible   /ɪndɪfˈɛnsəbəl/   Listen
Indefensible

adjective
1.
(of theories etc) incapable of being defended or justified.  Synonym: untenable.
2.
Not able to be protected against attack.
3.
Incapable of being justified or explained.  Synonyms: insupportable, unjustifiable, unwarrantable, unwarranted.





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"Indefensible" Quotes from Famous Books



... readers one private interest after another indefensible. Let the public extinguish such interests, by all means. But let the public be moral at its ...
— The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 • Various
... attack, sought to improve his indefensible position. He reformed his centre by the simple expedient of suppressing it. Apia was evacuated. The two flanks, Mulinuu and Matautu, were still held and fortified, Mulinuu (as I have said) to the isthmus, Matautu on a line from the bayside to the little river Fuisa. The centre ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... a thorough reconnoissance by General Mendoza, an engineer officer, who reported "that Padierna was absolutely indefensible, and that it was believed best to retire for reasons expressed in his note." General Valencia ordered Colonel Barreiro to Zacatepetl to watch and report the movements of the enemy. He further ordered Colonel Mendoza ...
— General Scott • General Marcus J. Wright
... large and able, without being a great poem. It has the incurable and indefensible defect of dulness. 'The line labours, and the words move slow.' The story is interesting of itself, but is lost in the labyrinthine details. It has many lines, and some highly and successfully wrought passages; but as a whole we may say of it as Porson ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan
... last opportunity for annihilating the invaders to escape. As to Kutusoff, who was fully informed concerning the utter disintegration of the "grand army," his conduct in holding back the main Russian force at the crucial moment is utterly indefensible; he saved thousands of his troops, perhaps, but he has passed into history as the man who is indirectly responsible for the rivers of blood which were still to drench the continent of Europe. Both he and Wittgenstein unloaded all the blame on Admiral Tchitchagoff, ...
— The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte - Vol. III. (of IV.) • William Milligan Sloane


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