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indecipherability

Definitions

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  • noun Quality of being indecipherable.

Etymologies

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indecipherable +‎ -ity

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Examples

  • But all too often the talks and panels were mind-numbing, leaving plenty of time for catered breaks, the downing of overpriced drinks, and a chance to wander through hallways filled with the military/scientific version of those posters you invariably see at high school science fairs, including the one that should have won all awards for pure indecipherability:

    Nick Turse: Eco-Explosives, a Bleeding BEAR, and the Armani-Clad Super Soldier 2009

  • Its indecipherability only made me more certain its contents were important.

    Kate Morton Ebook Collection Kate Morton 2008

  • Its indecipherability only made me more certain its contents were important.

    The House at Riverton Kate Morton 2008

  • "I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications incomprehensibleness".

    Mind Blowing Vocabulary!!-Excellent..!!! 2008

  • The name is not in any of my reference works, even Unbegaun's magnificent Russian Surnames, and its indecipherability is eating away at my composure.

    languagehat.com: VAPNYAR. 2004

  • Even the wallpaper designs had faded to indecipherability.

    A Winter Haunting Simmons, Dan 2002

  • Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs are best known for their pair of Number Two smashes, "Wooly Bully," a masterwork of indecipherability that made "Louie Louie" sound like an enunciation class, and "Li'l Red Riding Hood," a hormone-laced fairy tale with a happy ending.

    Boing Boing Jimmy Guterman 2010

  • Klingon, a constructed language of the Klingons in Star Trek, is the language of choice for anti-government groups in Saudi Arabia, precisely because of its indecipherability by government intelligence organizations.

    BBspot 2010

  • But all too often the talks and panels were mind-numbing, leaving plenty of time for catered breaks, the downing of overpriced drinks, and a chance to wander through hallways filled with the military / scientific version of those posters you invariably see at high school science fairs, including the one that should have won all awards for pure indecipherability:

    Antiwar.com Original 2009

  • The intentions and inclinations of Obama are so deeply shrouded in contradictions, denials, and feints that his supporters had no choice but to try and turn this cryptic indecipherability into a selling point.

    Wheat & Weeds 2008

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