Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Insufferably; intolerably.

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  • adverb Dated form of insufferably.

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Examples

  • This was very harmless and innocent pastime; tiresome, to be sure, yet laughable withal; nor did it call for any further rebuke than an occasional tap upon the cranium of some blockhead who forsook his legitimate sphere, thrust himself in your way, and became unsufferably blatant.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various

  • He, the heroine, would endeavor to look shy all through this unsufferably long song of nasal sound, and then she would take up the same refrain, and to the same tune sing back at him for the same length, and after his own style, while he would hang his head and listen.

    Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days 1890

  • Do not therefore be ungrateful; for, why not admit it? you were just now a nephew, most unsufferably encumbered with an uncle; you are noble, you are generous; you would have regretted all your life that you had not pardoned that uncle?

    Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora Mayne Reid 1850

  • Hartopp went back to his daughter's home in a state of great excitement, drinking more wine than usual at dinner, talking more magisterially than he had ever been known to talk, railing quite misanthropically against the world; observing, that Williams had become unsufferably overbearing, and should be pensioned off: in short, casting the whole family into the greatest perplexity to guess what had come to the mild man.

    What Will He Do with It? — Volume 10 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Hartopp went back to his daughter's home in a state of great excitement, drinking more wine than usual at dinner, talking more magisterially than he had ever been known to talk, railing quite misanthropically against the world; observing, that Williams had become unsufferably overbearing, and should be pensioned off: in short, casting the whole family into the greatest perplexity to guess what had come to the mild man.

    What Will He Do with It? — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • We found it unsufferably hot and suffocating in the reeds, and were tormented by myriads of mosquitoes, but the waters were perfectly sweet to the taste, nor did the slightest smell, as of stagnation, proceed from them.

    Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume I Charles Sturt 1832

  • We found it unsufferably hot and suffocating in the reeds, and were tormented by myriads of mosquitoes, but the waters were perfectly sweet to the taste, nor did the slightest smell, as of stagnation, proceed from them.

    Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete Charles Sturt 1832

  • So long as my ship remained at the bar I was much flattered, but after her departure I was most unsufferably misused; being in a heathen country, environed by so many enemies, who plotted daily to murder me and to cozen me of my goods.

    A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784

  • I did talk to her so as did not indeed become me, but I could not help it, she being so unsufferably foolish and simple, so that my father, poor man, is become a very unhappy man.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • I did talk to her so as did not indeed become me, but I could not help it, she being so unsufferably foolish and simple, so that my father, poor man, is become a very unhappy man.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

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