How to Use inexcusable in a Sentence

inexcusable

adjective
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  • George Floyd’s death is a tragedy in a long line of inexcusable tragedies.
    — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 5 June 2020
  • Two conduct calls and one lining up in the neutral zone which, by the way, is the most inexcusable flag in the game.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 23 Nov. 2021
  • For a coach as good as Franklin, this stuff is inexcusable.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2020
  • Putting leaves and dead plants in bags and sending them to the landfill is inexcusable.
    — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2021
  • The breach, as Foster saw it, of the papal duty to teach was inexcusable.
    — Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 2 Jan. 2021
  • Sure the Chargers won, but the decision to go for it on their own 24-yard line was inexcusable.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Jones is a good player who had a bad night, but that was an inexcusable effort, or lack of it.
    — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Out of the 10 penalties for which ASU was called, seven were false start penalties, which is inexcusable in the 11th game of the season.
    — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Those penalties are inexcusable and need to be cleaned up.
    — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 28 Oct. 2019
  • The swing at Rudolph was inexcusable, and so was the act of a turning the best win, for what might be the best team since the Browns returned in 1999, into an afterthought.
    — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 15 Nov. 2019
  • For someone that works at a recipe-focused food brand, that’s kind of inexcusable.
    — Alex Delany, Bon Appétit, 7 Oct. 2019
  • But an inexcusable false start by guard Matt Pryor pushed it back to a 64-yard attempt.
    — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Vikings are 1-4 at home this season, and two of the losses - to Atlanta and Dallas - are inexcusable.
    — Jim Souhan, Star Tribune, 29 Nov. 2020
  • But the lapse in judgement by Douglas — and his carelessness with the ball — was inexcusable.
    — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
  • With that being said, this loss in inexcusable even with Kelly Oubre Jr. out for a third straight game with a knee injury.
    — Duane Rankin, azcentral, 29 Feb. 2020
  • The absence of any female artists in the lineup is baffling — and inexcusable.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2023
  • But Vierling's inexcusable mistake on the bases was one many lapses by the Tigers in Wednesday's loss.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 13 Apr. 2023
  • But there are some actions that are inexcusable, Click said.
    — Karina Bland, azcentral, 19 June 2020
  • These technical issues are inexcusable and take us out of the games!
    — Jhaan Elker, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
  • To have two years of knowledge about how to fight this pandemic on hand and be in this kind of disarray is inexcusable.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2022
  • For some fans hungry for a return to the MLB playoffs, the inability to land a starter was inexcusable, even if the price to acquire one in a trade was high.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 3 Aug. 2023
  • In fact, the car doesn't even have seat belts, which is inexcusable, no matter what exemptions are invoked.
    — Car and Driver, 13 Jan. 2023
  • At worst, it would be seen as inexcusable uppitiness that might put the wedding in jeopardy.
    — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2020
  • The other suggests that while vaccine inequity in 2021 was inexcusable, poor countries now have enough to last them a while.
    — Achal Prabhala, Scientific American, 11 July 2022
  • Prescott threw an inexcusable interception in the second of those drives that set up Jacksonville for a short field.
    — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2022
  • That is where the issues raised by the president’s inexcusable actions and words must be addressed.
    — Sabrina Eaton, cleveland, 14 Feb. 2021
  • After a season’s worth of inexcusable plays, Wilmer Flores failed to step on first base to slow down the A’s big rally in Friday’s opener.
    — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 15 Aug. 2020
  • An inexcusable come-from-ahead loss to Jaguars to close down the Oakland Coliseum.
    — Ryan O’Halloran, The Denver Post, 18 Dec. 2019
  • These were performers who had such a hold on their fans that no venue was to big, because to miss their performance was inexcusable.
    — Eric Fuller, Forbes, 1 May 2022
  • What your brother-in-law did in response was inexcusable.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 21 Feb. 2021

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