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
/ 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').
- make off
- make off with
- make old bones
- make one's alley good
- make one's bow
- make oneself master of
- make oneself (or one's presence) felt
- make oneself scarce
- make oneself useful
- make one's excuses
- make one's mark
- make (one's) peace
- make one's point
- make one's presence felt
- make one's way
- make or break
- make (or kick up) a row
- make (or lose or spend) money hand over fist
- make (or open) a book
- make (or pull) a face (or faces)
- make (or put in) an appearance
- make out
- makeover
- make play with
- maker