Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an inimitable manner; to a degree beyond imitation.

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  • adverb In an inimitable manner.

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  • adverb in an unreproducible manner

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Examples

  • Much thanks to Macki, who held down the BoingBoing guestbar in inimitably 1337 fashion for the past couple of weeks.

    Boing Boing: September 14, 2003 - September 20, 2003 Archives 2003

  • The pieces here glow with his inimitably bittersweet harmonies and build melodic fragments that sound like snatches of wistful songs into richly layered, choirlike effects.

    Kenny Wheeler: The Long Waiting – review 2012

  • He told it inimitably, but it was the story of a failure.

    Chapter 29 2010

  • Mr. Brown still sometimes performs alongside the four men and four women of Evidence, and continues to light up his dances inimitably.

    Earthly Figures in the Clouds Robert Greskovic 2011

  • The upshot, as then mayor Ed Koch put it inimitably in 1983 while dismissing a massive Chinatown protest against a proposed jail: "You don't vote, you don't count."

    Ed Koch: Feelin' Groovy Ed Koch 2011

  • Described in the inimitably British Farrow & Ball color pamphlet as first becoming available in England in the 18th century, it went on: "This pigment was produced by reducing the bright yellow urine of cows fed on a special diet of mango leaves."

    Painting Outside the Lines Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • As always, there is no end to the delight in accompanying Isabel as she makes her way toward the heart of every problem: philosophizing, sleuthing, and downright snooping, in her inimitableand inimitably charmingfashion.

    The Lost Art of Gratitude by Alexander McCall Smith: Book summary 2010

  • The actor Max von Sydow's inimitably resonant voice and angular visage have made him memorable to moviegoers for more than half a century, first in Sweden and then internationally.

    His Silence Could Be Golden David Mermelstein 2012

  • Herzog's parade of oddball commentators and his own inimitably dry delivery of such coincidences as the close proximity to this cave of albino crocodiles make this, too, a beguiling experience of wonderment.

    Berlin film festival – review 2011

  • I remember that I approached the beloved object with fear and trembling; my heart beat, my ideas grew con fused, my voice failed me, I mangled all I said; I cried yes for no; I made a thousand blunders; I was inimitably inept; I was absurd from top to toe, and the more I saw it the more absurd I became.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

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