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Meanings of unspeakable in anglès

That cannot be expressed or described with words.

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      Exceptionally bad or displeasing.

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          Usage of unspeakable in anglès
          1
          Young adult Americans, particularly graduates, are tormented by that unspeakable tyrant: success.
          The Irish Times
          2
          His mother's disease, that great unspeakable subject, grew obscenely large between them.
          The talisman
          3
          We know how to comfort, how to help people speak the unspeakable.
          The Guardian
          4
          But that's how some people react to deception -with unspeakable violence.
          Jamaica Observer
          5
          The loss to literature and to his friends and family is unspeakable.
          The Guardian
          6
          Their nearness was an unspeakable comfort to the two in the crevice.
          Still Jim
          7
          An evilly disposed despot could have used it to practice unspeakable oppression.
          The End of Man?
          8
          Like the Germans in retreat from Flanders, the Turks practiced unspeakable horrors.
          Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights
          9
          The most unspeakable sectarian abuse was hurled at them by local loyalists.
          The Irish Times
          10
          The unspeakable odor of their hairy bodies is in my nostrils yet.
          Under the Andes
          11
          A few instants after I pulled up my legs in unspeakable terror.
          My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt
          12
          She felt overwhelmed with the cruel degradation of it, the unspeakable shame.
          Greatheart
          13
          To speak was to expose another to the possibility of the unspeakable.
          The Irish Times
          14
          An expression of unspeakable horror contracted the beautiful features of the countess.
          Within an Inch of His Life
          15
          Alobar couldn't believe how calmly, serenely even, she had spoken the unspeakable.
          Jitterbug Perfume
          16
          Or has she herself committed an unspeakable crime and is feigning insanity?
          Radio NZ
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