He added that Russia's cruel treatment of the Jews under the Czar's Government was an indefensible wrong, and doubtless contributed to driving some of those who had suffered most into the ranks of the Bolsheviki.
Even within the delegations of the Great Powers there were indignant murmurings against this indefensible and unheard-of treatment of allies.
The consequences were those which were bound to follow so indefensible a decision as the one that was reached.
In the end it is the indefensible truth that lasts; it lasts because it works and serves.
If one searches in the magazines of a little while ago, one finds in the angry and resentful reception of the Pre-Raphaelites another instance of the absolutely indefensible nature of many of the most beautiful propositions.
It is an unmitigated evil, utterly indefensible in the light of philosophy, religion, or good sense.
But the additional tax of five per cent on books is more indefensible still.
Of all doubts, there are none more painful or indefensible than those by which human rights are put in jeopardy.
The public condemnation of Desroches for consequences that were entirely strange to his one offence, was indefensible on grounds of strict logic.
If the present system is as indefensible as I think it, we should propose them all the same.
It is morally as indefensible for a nation to commit a wrong upon another nation, strong or weak, as for an individual thus to wrong his fellows.
I grant that I possess a monstrous andindefensible number.
Elsmere pointed out vindictively that family livings were a corrupt and indefensible institution.
He said: "The claim of the Canadians for access to deep water along any part of the Alaskan coast is just exactly as indefensible as if they should now suddenly claim the Island of Nantucket.
I know all about them and how indefensible they are.
This force occupied Fort Moultrie, at that time an indefensible position by reason of the unfinished character of its fortifications and the ease of approach to it from the land side.
We have already detailed the events of the war of 1812 on the Canada frontier, in which the capture and burning of York (now Toronto) served as an excuse for the subsequent indefensible burning of Washington by the British.
Nothing serious had happened since the Indian mutiny, the public was not interested in Indian affairs, and it required a crisis to direct attention to the fact that the Indian Government is an indefensible system of Government.
However much you could gloss over those indefensible proceedings in the past, the time has now come to alter them.
Such arguments as those advanced by Winthrop were only solemn quibbling to cloak an indefensible policy.
Matters were now rapidly approaching a crisis which could be avoided only by the resignation of the {169} President or by the retreat of the Senate from its indefensible position.
Sidenote: The bill indefensible from the constitutional point of view.
The power of that fact is what is able to carry so narrow and so indefensible a doctrine.
This is, then, provincialism and obtuseness and nowhere are they by their very nature more indefensible or more disastrous than in the preacher of religion.
Quite aside from the question of taste, it is psychologically indefensible to use the same building, and especially the same room in the building, for concerts, for picture shows, for worship.
So it will be if once the task is undertaken of reforming the confessedly bad and indefensible system of Irish administration.
In England the Upper House is composed of hereditary members; in the Canadian confederation, of members nominated for life--both of them methods which are quite indefensible in theory.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "indefensible" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
