inexpiable

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We also move forward through the inevitable media circus and court battle, the abdication of responsibility by everyone except the girl’s mother, who sags beneath the weight of an irrational yet inexpiable guilt.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2019

But “Manchester” strikes me as a film about moral rot, about inexpiable crimes of negligence and frivolity.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 24, 2017

Sin, inexpiable: this is not the kind of subject he took on before.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 15, 2016

Sports radio callers suspected the front office of writing off the season as it waited for its younger talent to develop, an inexpiable sin in sports-crazed Boston.

From BusinessWeek • Apr. 24, 2014

And from this new vantage-ground he launched another bolt at Euripides, whose coldness, he asserted, had belied this union, and made him guilty of a crime inexpiable in the sight of the gods.

From A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Orr, Sutherland, Mrs.