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conscionable

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con·scio·na·ble  (knsh-n-bl)
adj.
1. 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.
2. Conscientious; principled.
[Obsolete conscions (variant of conscience) + -able.]
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Adj.1.conscionable - acceptable to your conscience
just - used especially of what is legally or ethically right or proper or fitting; "a just and lasting peace"- A.Lincoln; "a kind and just man"; "a just reward"; "his just inheritance"
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The Black Lion, who, like old John, had been waiting supper past all reasonable and conscionable hours, hailed this as a philosophical discovery of the profoundest and most penetrating kind; and the table being already spread, they sat down to supper straightway.
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