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单词 inexpiable
释义

inexpiable

/ɪnˈɛkspɪəb(ə)l /
adjective
(Of an offence or feeling) so bad as to be impossible to expiate: an inexpiable sin...
  • Whom of your followers have I ever injured that you thus rage with inexpiable hatred against me?
  • They play a fundamental role in the capacity of colonizers to invent a rationale for their inexpiable barbarity.
  • Blackpool attempted to rally, but again a series of inexpiable officiating decisions again saw an avalanche of penalties against the visitors.

Derivatives

inexpiably

/ɪnˈɛkspɪəbli / adverb ...
  • The bringers of Tuesday's terror were morally ‘barbaric’, inexpiably so, but they brought a demented sophistication to their work.
  • We are pitted against each other, condemned to inflicting the greatest possible pain on each other, inexpiably.
  • Not having done inexpiably wrong in deeds and actions, we are properly faithful to the objects of faith.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin inexpiabilis, from in- 'not' + expiabilis 'able to be appeased' (from expiare 'expiate').

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