How to Use unjustifiable in a Sentence

unjustifiable

adjective
  • This seems to be an attempt to try to justify what is clearly unjustifiable.
    — Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2020
  • In Scottsdale, more than a few people found the city’s subsidy unjustifiable.
    — Katie Surma, The Arizona Republic, 20 June 2018
  • Scientists like me are beginning to rebel against the unjustifiable waste of resources.
    — Shella Keilholz, STAT, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Today many Coloradans are saddened and distressed by this unjustifiable act but not at all surprised.
    — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 19 May 2026
  • Putin’s choice to make a totally unjustifiable war on Ukraine will have left Russia weaker and the rest of the world stronger.
    — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2022
  • If an experiment has no chance of working, that all becomes unjustifiable.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The choice to incinerate them is unjustifiable and undermines efforts to protect the health and rights of women and girls.
    — Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Salim has to be the pragmatic one who pretends everything around them isn’t morally unjustifiable just to get through the day without losing his mind.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Maxwell defended raises to his top aides, but called those in the human resources division unjustifiable.
    — Washington Post, 5 May 2018
  • Someone acts recklessly when the person fails to perceive a substantial and unjustifiable risk that should have been apparent.
    — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 12 Sep. 2020
  • Such largesse will be politically unjustifiable in what promises to be a tough postwar economy.
    — Yohanan Plesner, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2023
  • The killing of another human being in cold blood is brutal, savage, and utterly unjustifiable.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Hilow countered prosecutor's arguments that the shooting was an unjustifiable use of force.
    — Adam Ferrise, cleveland.com, 12 June 2017
  • The infamous soup-throwing incident didn't help, earning him a one-game suspension, the latest in a long line of unjustifiable antics.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland.com, 4 May 2018
  • The problem was only made worse when Russia’s unjustifiable invasion of Ukraine cut off food and fuel exports.
    — Ben Ritz, Forbes, 8 June 2022
  • That so many of these subtle strengths are undermined by poor structure, unjustifiable plotting, and an inattention to detail in basic storytelling is a real shame.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Some see no-kids zones as an unjustifiable act of age discrimination that runs contrary to the Korean constitution.
    — Chris Lau, CNN, 24 June 2023
  • When the history of this era is written, Putin's choice to make a totally unjustifiable war on Ukraine will have left Russia weaker and the rest of the world stronger.
    — ABC News, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Time away from her family felt increasingly unjustifiable.
    — Esha Chhabra, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The heinous, appalling and unjustifiable massacre of October 7 followed decades of violence.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
  • To add insult to injury, the RGB brazenly pushes certain myths to excuse unjustifiable rent increases.
    — David R. Jones, New York Daily News, 28 May 2024
  • The story is the Republican Party finding a way to justify the unjustifiable.
    — ABC News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Basic recklessness is the conscious disregard of a substantial and unjustifiable risk, which is also a gross deviation from a reasonable standard of care.
    — Danny Cevallos, NBC News, 1 Jan. 2018
  • Typically, a value of 5% or more may not be the ideal buying opportunity because there could be a chance to buy at a lower level, unless the stock is down for some unjustifiable reason.
    — Jeff Nash, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the remainder of the developed world seeks to wage financial war on the Russian state in order to punish it for its unjustifiable hostility and, above all, stop the fighting.
    — Tim Maurer, Forbes, 15 May 2022
  • This is part of a larger trend of powerful adults and institutions failing in their obligation to shield the powerless from unfair criticism and unjustifiable consequences.
    — Isaac Schorr, National Review, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Coppola captures the ambivalence of officers continuing to honor the fallen during an unjustifiable and unwinnable war, but the drama is buttoned-up and square.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
  • This unjustifiable benefit, which could be worth more than a hundred million dollars to the Trumps, would go directly into the pockets of the President and his family.
    — Austin Elias-De Jesus, New Yorker, 3 June 2026
  • That’s because his decision to vote against border security and put a stop to critical aid that would curb Russian and Chinese interests is unjustifiable.
    — Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, Sun Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2024
  • One Detroit officer in the Free Press review wasn’t criminally charged in a shooting even the department deemed unjustifiable.
    — Detroit Free Press, 21 Apr. 2024

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