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  • 61reprehensible — I adjective accusable, bad, base, blamable, blameful, blameworthy, censurable, chargeable, condemnable, convictable, criminal, culpa dignus, culpable, delinquent, deserving censure, deserving reproof, discreditable, disgraceful, disgusting,… …

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  • 62wanton — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. lewd, licentious, loose, dissolute, immoral; frolicsome, abandoned, capricious, willful; wild; heartless, malicious; heedless, reckless, wayward, perverse; luxuriant, rampant, exuberant. See… …

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  • 63Vice — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Vice >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 vice vice Sgm: N 1 evil doing evil doing evil courses Sgm: N 1 wrongdoing wrongdoing Sgm: N 1 wickedness wickedness viciousness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 iniquity …

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  • 64reckless — Not recking; careless, heedless, inattentive; indifferent to consequences. According to circumstances it may mean desperately heedless, wanton or willful, or it may mean only careless, inattentive, or negligent. For conduct to be reckless it must …

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  • 65un|jus´ti|fi´a|ble|ness — un|jus|ti|fi|a|ble «uhn JUHS tuh FY uh buhl», adjective. that cannot be justified; not defensible or right: »an unjustifiable act. Nor is it unjustifiable to hold that those who owe a superior allegiance to a foreign Government…have therefore… …

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  • 66un|jus|ti|fi|a|ble — «uhn JUHS tuh FY uh buhl», adjective. that cannot be justified; not defensible or right: »an unjustifiable act. Nor is it unjustifiable to hold that those who owe a superior allegiance to a foreign Government…have therefore forfeited the… …

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  • 67Indefensible — 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,… …

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  • 68pacifism — n. the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable. Syn: passivism. [WordNet 1.5] 2. The belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration. [WordNet 1.5] …

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  • 69Peevish — Pee vish, a. [OE. pevische; of uncertain origin, perh. from a word imitative of the noise made by fretful children + ish.] 1. Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant. Her peevish babe.… …

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  • 70inflated — adjective Date: 1652 1. elaborated or heightened by artificial or empty means < an inflated style of writing > 2. distended with air or gas 3. expanded to an abnormal or unjustifiable volume or level < inflated prices > 4. being hollow and&#8230; …

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