Definition of "conscionable" []

• Acceptable or permissible according to conscience: "Ignoring [disadvantaged minorities] is no more conscionable today than it was in the riot-scorched America of 20 years ago” ( Christian Science Monitor). (adjective)
• Conscientious; principled. (adjective)

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• "Viet Nam also set the precedent for the CIA to go well beyond any conscionable realm for their involvement in the murder of Diem."
• "On the plus side of the ledger, Iraq has many of the structural features of a modern, functioning society - an educated populace, an economic middle class and bureaucratic institutions that, while lumbering and more corrupt than would be conscionable by our standards, still manage to deliver services to the public."
• "All it promises now is deforestation, escalating world food prices, revolution and starvation. the only conscionable use for food is food."