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Indefensible synonyms

ĭn'dĭ-fĕn'sə-bəl
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yielding
Bending easily; flexible
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  1. Bending easily; flexible
  2. Producing a good yield; productive
  3. Inclined to give way to pressure, argument, or influence; docile.
vincible
That can be overcome or defeated; conquerable
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  1. That can be overcome or defeated; conquerable
  2. Capable of being overcome or defeated:
defenseless
Lacking defense; unable to defend oneself; open to attack; helpless; unprotected
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  1. Lacking defense; unable to defend oneself; open to attack; helpless; unprotected
unprotected
Not protected; lacking defense.
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  1. Not protected; lacking defense.
  2. Without the protection of a condom
  3. Engaged in without taking precautions against the risk of pregnancy or infection by sexually transmitted disease.
unjustifiable
Impossible to excuse, pardon, or justify:
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  1. Impossible to excuse, pardon, or justify:
  2. That cannot be justified, excused or pardoned
inexpiable
That cannot be expiated or atoned for
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  1. That cannot be expiated or atoned for
  2. Both unforgivable and inexplicable
  3. Impossible to expiate or atone for:
inexcusable
That cannot or should not be excused; unpardonable; unjustifiable
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  1. That cannot or should not be excused; unpardonable; unjustifiable
  2. Impossible to excuse or justify; unpardonable:
unforgivable
Not forgivable
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  1. Not forgivable
  2. Of or relating to an act or situation that one cannot or will not forgive:
unjustifiable
Impossible to excuse, pardon, or justify:
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  1. Impossible to excuse, pardon, or justify:
  2. That cannot be justified, excused or pardoned
Find another word for indefensible. In this page you can discover 31 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for indefensible, like: yielding, vincible, defenseless, unprotected, unjustifiable, inexpiable, unpardonable, open, weak, unforgivable and inexcusable.

Sentence Examples

  • On grounds of policy and morality alike the act was quite indefensible; but it is perhaps some palliation of his perjury that it was committed to satisfy the last urgent wish of a dying man, and that he alone remained true to the nine days' queen when the others who had with him signed Edward's device deserted her.

  • Although various commanders had reported the Sleme - Mrzli line indefensible, steps which should have followed logically had not been taken.

  • The company was by no means a financial success, and many of its proceedings were wholly unscrupulous and indefensible; its great object, however, was attained, and New Zealand became the Britain of the south.

  • He has been represented as a determined apologist of intellectual orthodoxy animated by an almost fanatical "hatred of reason," and possessed with a purpose to overthrow the appeal to reason; as a sceptic and pessimist of a far deeper dye than Montaigne, anxious chiefly to show how any positive decision on matters beyond the range of experience is impossible; as a nervous believer clinging to conclusions which his clearer and better sense showed to be indefensible; as an almost ferocious ascetic and paradoxer affecting the credo quia impossibile in intellectual matters and the odi quia amabile in matters moral and sensuous; as a wanderer in the regions of doubt and belief, alternately bringing a vast though vague power of thought and an unequalled power of expression to the expression of ideas incompatible and irreconcilable.

  • In a military sense the position was indefensible.

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