unpardonable

Example Sentences

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As Sook tells a shamed Buddy, “there is only one unpardonable sin—deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

After last November's guilty verdict from a jury in Los Angeles, US Attorney Martin Estrada said the deaths had been caused by the ship captain's "unpardonable cowardice".

From BBC • May 2, 2024

But alleged mistreatment of a spouse is, for many younger fans of comedy, an unpardonable sin.

From Salon • May 3, 2023

Emmett, a Chicago kid visiting family in Mississippi, had committed an unpardonable sin.

From Washington Post • May 20, 2022

My faux-pas was so palpably obvious, so idiotic and unpardonable, that to ignore it would show me to be an even greater fool if possible, than I was already.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier