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 indefensible [,indi'fensәbl]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 不能防卫的, 无辩护余地的



    indefensible
    [ adj ]
    1. (of theories etc) incapable of being defended or justified

    2. <adj.all>
    3. not able to be protected against attack

    4. <adj.all>
    5. incapable of being justified or explained

    6. <adj.all>


    Indefensible \In`de*fen"si*ble\, [Pref. in- not + defensible:
    cf. OF. indefensible, indefensable.]
    Not defensible; not capable of being defended, maintained,
    vindicated, or justified; unjustifiable; untenable; as, an
    indefensible fortress, position, cause, statement, etc.

    Men find that something can be said in favor of what,
    on the very proposal, they thought utterly
    indefensible. --Burke.

    1. At yesterday's hearing, Mr Jim Leach, the ranking Republican member of the banking committee, said the present system was 'indefensible'.
    2. It can eliminate its more indefensible perquisites, such as the free prescription drugs.
    3. By several accounts, Justice and White House lawyers told him this position was "legally indefensible."
    4. The notion that a baby surrendered for adoption is property to be bound in perpetuity by a contract signed by two other parties at his/her birth is morally indefensible.
    5. Sir, Boris Fyodorov deserves support for his rebuttal (Letters, September 20) of German defence minister Volker Ruhe's indefensible views on Nato membership.
    6. The U.S. State Department on Wednesday called "outrageous and indefensible" Haiti's expulsion of democratic opposition leaders and other measures to silence dissent.
    7. He called U.S. aid "morally indefensible." In the June 12 letter, Dellums told Boren he was writing "in advance of reported pending action in your committee which would again direct United States resources" to the Angolan rebels.
    8. Otherwise the practice is surely indefensible.'
    9. Mr John Smith, the Labour leader, told Labour MPs in a letter that the guillotine procedure was 'indefensible'.
    10. But the conclusion he draws is indefensible.
    11. Jackie's behavior was indefensible, but I had erred in going out with him in the first place.
    12. "There's more of a recognition that the status quo is indefensible."
    13. Are not market participants entitled to expect that eligible Irish companies will be included in the premier representative index of the stock exchange? Mr Jones is trying to defend the indefensible.
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