Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- So as not to be supported or endured; intolerably.
- Irresistibly.
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- adverb In an
insupportable manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The contrary messages it sends to LGBT people across the country are insupportably damaging.
Hayley Gorenberg: Gay Rights as Human Rights Hayley Gorenberg 2010
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The contrary messages it sends to LGBT people across the country are insupportably damaging.
Hayley Gorenberg: Gay Rights as Human Rights Hayley Gorenberg 2010
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The contrary messages it sends to LGBT people across the country are insupportably damaging.
Hayley Gorenberg: Gay Rights as Human Rights Hayley Gorenberg 2010
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He stared at her across the terrace, insupportably distracted by her.
The Year of Living Scandalously Julia London 2010
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He stared at her across the terrace, insupportably distracted by her.
The Year of Living Scandalously Julia London 2010
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Do you sometimes wish to sit quiet and alone and without a thing to do but sit there, or does this strike you as insupportably idle?
Michael Giltz: Books: Padgett Powell Has A Few Questions He'd Like To Ask 2009
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It takes fantastic levels of sad misdirected creativity to want to find meaning in such things — poetic meaning no less — and in this Schjeldahl is almost insupportably qualified.
Chance Abutmenting (a counter-critique of Peter Schjeldahl) 2008
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The primary message, as I see it, is simple and important--scientific mythologies are dangerous because they deceptively borrow authority from the sciences while being insupportably speculative and, even worse, generally fail to offer an adequate moral framework for their adherents.
Review of James A. Herrick, Scientific Mythologies James F. McGrath 2008
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He would now have taken them round the house; but, nearly expiring with shame, they entreated to be excused; and, insupportably oppressed by the cruel discovery they had to divulge, stole apart to consult upon what measures they should take.
Camilla 2008
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He consented, and soon troubled them enough; for he brought over numbers of Danes, and taxed the people so insupportably to enrich those greedy favourites that there were many insurrections, especially one at Worcester, where the citizens rose and killed his tax-collectors; in revenge for which he burned their city.
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