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- adjective That cannot be
told ;indefinable ,indescribable orineffable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective defying expression or description
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Examples
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And this was to say nothing of my one diarist's duty still undischarged: If I was snuffed out here and now who would tell the untellable tale?
'The Last Werewolf' 2011
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Such words have to be invented and will only come into common use when these presently untellable truths become commonplace truths.
George Lakoff: Untellable Truths George Lakoff 2010
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The conservative message machine has so dominated political discourse that they have changed the meaning of words and made some truths untellable by political leaders in present discourse.
George Lakoff: Untellable Truths George Lakoff 2010
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That is the first step in telling our most important untellable truths.
George Lakoff: Untellable Truths George Lakoff 2010
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Here are just a few examples of presently untellable truths:
George Lakoff: Untellable Truths George Lakoff 2010
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The conservative message machine has so dominated political discourse that they have changed the meaning of words and made some truths untellable by political leaders in present discourse.
George Lakoff: Untellable Truths George Lakoff 2010
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That is the first step in telling our most important untellable truths.
George Lakoff: Untellable Truths George Lakoff 2010
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The main differences between this world and ours are these (at a “guiding principles” level anyway, of course the differences would “really” occur as an untellable metastasization, a fractal expansion headed down an inescapable and unexplorable rabbit hole):
I'm of two minds 2008
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Here are just a few examples of presently untellable truths:
George Lakoff: Untellable Truths George Lakoff 2010
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The main differences between this world and ours are these (at a “guiding principles” level anyway, of course the differences would “really” occur as an untellable metastasization, a fractal expansion headed down an inescapable and unexplorable rabbit hole):
October 2008 2008
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