unexcusable

Updated: May 7, 2025

I could not even punctooate my sentences proper at that time, and I observe with pane, on lookin over this effort of my yooth, that its beauty is in one or two instances mar'd by ingrammaticisms. This was unexcusable, and I'm surprised I did it. A writer who can't write in a grammerly manner better shut up shop. You shall hear this Essy on Animals.

Artemus Ward - The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 5: The London Punch Letters

Was I to say, fie! fie! and take my hat and go away? "She was very wretched," he continued, for Bertram merely scowled and said nothing, "and I could not but sympathize with her. She thought that you had neglected her. It was clear that you had gone abroad without telling her. Was it to be wondered at that she should be unhappy?" "Her telling you that she was so was unexcusable."

Anthony Trollope - The Bertrams

"You have been enjoying yourself?" almost shrieked Robin Goodfellow. "Well," said Gauzita, in unexcusable slang, "I must smile." And she did smile. "And nobody has pined away and died?" cried Robin. "I haven't," said Gauzita, swinging herself and ringing her bells again. "I really haven't had time." Robin Goodfellow turned around and rushed out of the group. He regarded this as insulting.

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories

And though this may seem too subtile a deduction of the Lawes of Nature, to be taken notice of by all men; whereof the most part are too busie in getting food, and the rest too negligent to understand; yet to leave all men unexcusable, they have been contracted into one easie sum, intelligible even to the meanest capacity; and that is, "Do not that to another, which thou wouldest not have done to thy selfe;" which sheweth him, that he has no more to do in learning the Lawes of Nature, but, when weighing the actions of other men with his own, they seem too heavy, to put them into the other part of the ballance, and his own into their place, that his own passions, and selfe-love, may adde nothing to the weight; and then there is none of these Lawes of Nature that will not appear unto him very reasonable.

Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan

Now since the Chymical Oyls, by reason of their great prices are most of them adulterated, and very few of them right good, and that nothing hath been published on this matter, and to leave the buyers of them unexcusable, I shall here add briefly, yet sufficiently the ways to discover these Cheats. First for sweet-scented Chymical Oyls, viz. those of Cloves, Cinnamon and Sassaphras.

Christopher Merret - A Short View of the Frauds and Abuses Committed by Apothecaries: As well in Relation to Patients, as Physicians: And Of the: only Remedy thereof by Physicians making their own: Medicines.