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Definition of "inexpiable" [in•ex•pi•a•ble]

  • Impossible to expiate or atone for: inexpiable crimes. (adjective)
  • Obsolete Implacable. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "inexpiable" in a sentence
  • "For he now lived inside the words of Omar, the ghost's plaintive smile staved his soul of its inexpiable guilt."
  • "And to impress upon me that I had done nothing inexpiable."
  • "Now, it required no conjurer to foresee, that should Francis commit this inexpiable crime of secretly allying himself with a"