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- adjective Not
discussable ; that cannot bediscussed .
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Examples
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“The ethos of relativism finds the demographic question so saturated in revulsions that it is rendered undiscussable.”
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Making a problem undiscussable does not make the problem go away.
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Making a problem undiscussable does not make the problem go away.
Obama and the Middle East: Complex Systems, Poorly Planned Interventions, and The Law of Unintended Consequences Eric K. Clemons 2010
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Gentlemen, I think the time has come to put aside our traditional squeamishness and discuss the undiscussable, without disgusting the all too easily disgustable.
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The smarter and more intellectual we count ourselves, the more adamantly we insist that there is no such thing as truth, no such thing as general human experience, that everything is plural and relative and therefore undiscussable.
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Thus the conservative tactic of further smothering the meaning of the event with ludicrous, unprovable and, ideally, undiscussable irrelevancies.
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As for the undiscussable topic, John A is setting up a forum for that.
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As a result, the possibility of an alternative to the attacks of 9/11 to pursuing a "war on terror" was for several years practically undiscussable in the public arena.
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What about other sexual activity and how does that fit in with the churches teaching on human sexuality, which has really been undiscussable?
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Well, you know, this is not an undiscussable position.
Promise and Power: The Life and Times of Robert McNamara 1993
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