What doubts soever have been raised about the merit of the Music, which, as the Italian taste at that time began wholly to prevail, was thought sufficient inexcusable, because it was the composition of an Englishman; the Poetry of this Piece has given as much pleasure in the closet, as others have afforded from the Stage, with all the assistance of voices and instruments.

Now, here again, any lack of candor would be inexcusable.

It would be difficult to point out any defects and excesses of which Byron was guilty at this period beyond what were common to other fashionable young men of rank and leisure, except a spirit of religious scepticism and impiety, and a wanton and inexcusable recklessness in regard to women, which made him a slave to his passions.

accusable, imputable; indefensible, inexcusable; unpardonable, unjustifiable; vicious &c 845.

incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for; culpable, reprehensible &c (guilty) 947. unjustifiable; indefensible, inexcusable; inexpiable, unpardonable, irremissible^. weak, frail, lax, infirm, imperfect; indiscrete; demoralizing, degrading.

In face of this improvement he thought with dismay of having to confess failure in a scheme which apart from success was inexcusable.

The inexcusable slang went unreproved.

" "They decampedas you call itbecause your father wouldn't give them any more money," said Regina with flashing eyes, "that was inexcusable folly.

Nor must I omit under this Head, those excessive Alarms with which several boisterous Rusticks infest our Streets in Turnip Season; and which are more inexcusable, because these are Wares which are in no Danger of Cooling upon their Hands.

The Travelling Ladies, who have half the Town to see in an Afternoon, may be pardoned for being in constant Hurry; but it is inexcusable in Men to come where they have no Business, to profess they absent themselves where they have.

It is possible you may not be aware of much in his daily life that you would disapprovemuch that, under the circumstances, though I am no rigid moralist, appears inexcusable even to me.

You are, nevertheless, inexcusable for using language so strikingly calculated to lead them into error.

That the magistrate, with all his regard for the rights and welfare of the apprentices, showed a great and inexcusable partiality for the masters.

" Aldous told him what had happened, and before MacDonald could utter an expression of his feelings he admitted that he was an inexcusable idiot and that nothing MacDonald might say could drive that fact deeper home.

Our present mode of proceeding would be inexcusable if I were a traction-engine, and you my tender.

The American soldiery are a more cultivated set of men than these, and are in proportion more inexcusable for any resort to intemperance.

I must speak to the landlord; it is inexcusable to let such a hole for any one to live in.

While it gave him pain to be thus wounded in the house of his friends, he yet more deeply deplored the inexcusable blunder of leaders whose misplaced sympathy put in jeopardy the success of a vital political principle.

It was the obstinacy of Davis that had protracted the War through the winter and spring of 1865, long after it was evident from the reports of Lee and of the other commanders that the resources of the Confederacy were exhausted and that any further struggle simply meant an inexcusable loss of life on both sides.

If you do know it, you are inexcusable for not designating the man and proving the fact.

If you do not know it, you are inexcusable for asserting it, and especially for persisting in the assertion after you have tried and failed to make the proof.

He could not look into his mind with any present hope of obtaining a truthful reply to the very eminent and vital question, how far his will had participated in that burning but wholly inexcusable desire by which he had been so shockingly assailed.

© 16Jun23, A705886. R73537, 26Jan51, Richard M. Payne (C) PEAT, HAROLD R. The inexcusable lie.

Such inexcusable perversion of a writer's meaning for an evanescent political objectand a very shabby object toois enough to make one think that George III. knew what he was talking about, when he once delivered himself of the saying that "Politics are a trade for a rascal, not for a gentleman.

By his polished manners, his manly virtues, and his prudential views, which mainly formed his taste, and enabled him to disseminate taste, Sir Joshua rescued art from this degrading prejudice, which, while it flattered vanity and excused vice, made the objects of the flattery contemptible and inexcusable.