How to Use unjustifiable in a Sentence

unjustifiable

adjective

• 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
• 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
• In Scottsdale, more than a few people found the city’s subsidy unjustifiable.
  — Katie Surma, The Arizona Republic, 20 June 2018
• This seems to be an attempt to try to justify what is clearly unjustifiable.
  — Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2020
• Scientists like me are beginning to rebel against the unjustifiable waste of resources.
  — Shella Keilholz, STAT, 1 Feb. 2024
• Without that, their price starts to feel unjustifiable in the modern world of true wireless convenience at the same or lower price, alongside better and cheaper neckbuds from OnePlus and Huawei at the $99 mark.
  — Vlad Savov, The Verge, 20 June 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• French especially has long held an unjustifiable position of prestige, but these girls will drop it all on a dime to catch his Puerto Rican ear, on his Puerto Rican terms.
  — New York Times, 31 Jan. 2020
• 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
• Her Instagram post runs in full below: My thoughts are with all those affected by this unjustifiable tragedy and every day that innocent lives are taken by this conflict – too many of which are children.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Oct. 2023
• The story is the Republican Party finding a way to justify the unjustifiable.
  — ABC News, 13 Aug. 2023
• Russia attacked and invaded Ukraine a month ago, in what the U.S. and other Western nations have condemned as an unprovoked and unjustifiable assault.
  — NBC News, 26 Mar. 2022
• 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
• 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
• If an experiment has no chance of working, that all becomes unjustifiable.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 7 Dec. 2021
• The paddling was one result, provoked but unjustifiable.
  — Julia M. Klein, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
• Maxwell defended raises to his top aides, but called those in the human resources division unjustifiable.
  — Washington Post, 5 May 2018
• Other manufacturers produced better sound without sucking up a ton of space on the front of the phone, making Google's Pixel 2 design unjustifiable.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 15 Oct. 2018
• One need not sympathize with the protesters themselves to spot the obvious and disturbing precedent set by this unjustifiable overreach.
  — Aaron Wudrick, National Review, 22 Feb. 2022
• 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
• For the price of an international flight, a lavish hotel and unjustifiable CO2 emissions, the partakers can lament about our doomed planet and its evil corporations with like-minded elitists.
  — Wal Van Lierop, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• Hilow countered prosecutor's arguments that the shooting was an unjustifiable use of force.
  — Adam Ferrise, cleveland.com, 12 June 2017
• Such largesse will be politically unjustifiable in what promises to be a tough postwar economy.
  — Yohanan Plesner, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2023
• 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
• 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
• In the postwar years, Korematsu v. United States sank into infamy as an unjustifiable suspension of rights and condoning of racial mistreatment.
  — Jacob Gershman, WSJ, 26 June 2018
• Some may regard those goals as justified, and others as immoral and unjustifiable, but those assessments are not relevant to the terrorist designation.
  — Foreign Affairs, 27 Oct. 2023
• In May 2020, Brown again used excessive and unjustifiable force during the handcuffing process, deactivated his body camera, falsified the use-of-force report, arrest report and failed to provide video evidence, the agency said.
  — NBC News, 25 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024