Definitions
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- noun The quality or state of being
unworkable ; lack ofworkableness .
Etymologies
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un- + work + -able + -ness
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Examples
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Had not Pia had practical proof of the unworkableness of those theories?
Antony Gray,—Gardener Leslie Moore
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But, as I say, this scepticism is often tempered by guesses at a possibly hidden truth, and the confession that this truth may exist reveals the practical unworkableness of the unconditioned system, at least for Dreiser.
A Book of Prefaces 1918
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Prussia, the disloyal machinations of the court, the reactionary sentiment of La Vendée, the absolute unworkableness of the new constitution.
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre John Morley 1880
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