Meanings of wholly indefensible in English

The garrison is utterly insufficient to resist the Boers; the position wholly indefensible.

The latter place is wholly indefensible against an enemy holding the hills around it.

Still, our propensity for listening to the rank breath of the multitude is not wholly indefensible.

But ultimately, the order remains wholly indefensible on moral and policy grounds -and may fail to pass constitutional muster, too.

How this happened is still unclear, but justice secretary Chris Grayling has said the allegations represent something " wholly indefensible and unacceptable".

"Norman Douglas did a wholly indefensible thing," said the doctor.

.... People ought not to pack cocked pistols about in the hip pockets of their trousers; the custom is wholly indefensible.