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Insufferable   /ɪnsˈəfərəbəl/   Listen
adjective
Insufferable  adj.  
1.
Incapable of being suffered, borne, or endured; insupportable; unendurable; intolerable; as, insufferable heat, cold, or pain; insufferable wrongs.
2.
Offensive beyond endurance; detestable. "A multitude of scribblers who daily pester the world with their insufferable stuff."





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"Insufferable" Quotes from Famous Books



... terrific: the vibrant atmosphere over the red-hot sand looked as though it had become molten, and the glare to the eye was almost insufferable. There was not a breath of air stirring. Indeed, it was due solely to this fact that the patrol had ventured to cross the shifting dunes. Later, when the wind blew, it would be courting death to ...
— A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari - Seven Tales of South-West Africa • Frederick Cornell
... from most of the gentlemen at that! "Preposterous!" said one. "Ridiculous!" said another. "Insufferable ...
— Out in the Forty-Five - Duncan Keith's Vow • Emily Sarah Holt
... endeavours, either to overthrow their government, or to bend it to his will. But the full experiment had now been made; and the result was a conviction not to be resisted, that moderation would only invite additional injuries, and that the present insufferable state of things could be terminated only by procuring the removal of the French minister, or by submitting to become, in his hands, the servile instrument of hostility against the enemies of his nation. Information was continually ...
— The Life of George Washington, Vol. 5 (of 5) • John Marshall
... for he is the greatest case of monopoly in conversation I ever met with or heard of. He is insufferable, unpardonable. He did nothing but talk, talk, talk, to the almost absolute exclusion of ...
— Talkers - With Illustrations • John Bate
... was absolutely necessary that she should restrain herself and endure his insufferable endearments, and even force herself to speak. And yet her tongue seemed tied, and it was only by the utmost effort of her will that she could bring herself to express her astonishment at ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers


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