Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not venerable; not worthy of veneration; contemptible.

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  • adjective Not venerable.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ venerable

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Examples

  • Miss McCracken, ancient and unvenerable as himself, still kept the accounts.

    Tales of the Jazz Age 2003

  • His long and unvenerable hairs strayed loose beneath the dunghill relic which crowned them.

    Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray David Christie Murray

  • Miss McCracken, ancient and unvenerable as himself, still kept the accounts.

    Tales of the Jazz Age 1918

  • And the aged unvenerable Grand-Duke of Saxe-Kesselberg died too in the same March; and afterward his other grandson, Prince Augustus, reigned in the merry old debauchee's stead.

    The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918

  • This unvenerable old Prince de Gâtinais -- once Grand Duke of Noumaria, you remember -- has

    The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions 1917

  • And the aged unvenerable Grand-Duke of Saxe-Kesselberg died too in the same March; and afterward his other grandson, Prince Augustus, reigned in the merry old debauchee's stead.

    The Certain Hour 1909

  • No wonder then that the ignorant soldiers took their share of mockery with these shameless and unvenerable hierarchs: no wonder that, at their midday meal, they pledged in mock hilarity the Dying Man, cruelly holding up toward his burning lips their cups of sour wine, and echoing the Jewish taunts against the weakness of the King whose throne was a cross, whose crown was thorns.

    The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 Rossiter Johnson 1906

  • The streets have a dull monotonous appearance, and the ancient unvenerable houses are grimy to blackness with the accumulation of soot on them.

    Fan : the story of a young girl's life 1881

  • It had originally been yellow, but time had turned that elegance to ashes, to a turbid sallow unvenerable white.

    What Maisie Knew Henry James 1879

  • The figure kept on, showing more and more distinctly the tall, meagre, not unvenerable features of a gentleman in the decline of life, apparently in ill-health; with a dark face, that might once have been full of energy, but now seemed enfeebled by time, passion, and perhaps sorrow.

    Sketches and Studies Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 1852

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