excuseless
adjEtymology From excuse + -less.
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Having no excuse; not admitting of excuse or apology.
- What of the weakling, the ignorant criminal? Not who, excuseless, Breaking my law braved death, knowing his deed and its due — Nay, but the feeble and foolish, the poor transgressor, of purpose1883, Robert Browning, Ixion:
- To accept these and kindred social sicknesses as fatalities is as excuseless as to accept tuberculosis or hookworm as permanent and unavoidable ills.1913, John Graham Brooks, “Chapter 16”, in American Syndicalism:
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- 1922, Judson Eber Conant, The Church The Schools and Evolution /The Logic of Evolution is Destructive The Bible makes man's fall deliberate and wilful, and his continued attitude of sinful enmity against God, in spite of all God's offered power to change it into love, one of excuseless lawlessness and rebellion.
- Derived terms
- excuselessness