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Meanings of unmanageable in English

Hard to control.

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      Difficult to use or handle or manage because of size or weight or shape.

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          Incapable of being controlled or managed.

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                Usage of unmanageable in English
                1
                The propeller gathered in the net and it rendered her practically unmanageable.
                History of the World War: An Authentic Narrative of the World's...
                2
                Amplified increasingly by climate change, those stresses threaten soon to become unmanageable.
                The Guardian
                3
                The company had faced unmanageable debt maturities over the next two years.
                Reuters
                4
                Servants and subordinate agents in England are quite unmanageable in these respects.
                The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's C...
                5
                The more products Blackboard added or acquired, the more unmanageable it became.
                Wired
                6
                A volume of smoke almost blinded him; his horse became wholly unmanageable.
                The Black Box
                7
                A controversy in regard to it rapidly grew into almost unmanageable proportions.
                The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 6: 1862-1863
                8
                In 1698 prosperity and security had made men querulous, fastidious and unmanageable.
                The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ...
                9
                These great giants would be wholly unmanageable in our school at present.
                Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melan...
                10
                I think the motorman simply found the hansom unmanageable, for some reason.
                Frank Merriwell's Reward
                11
                This costume of yours will be unmanageable on account of the wind.
                The Land of the Long Night
                12
                But this would be an appliance hard to manufacture and extremely unmanageable.
                The fantastic inventions of Nikola Tesla
                13
                The leather folds are stiff, but not unmanageable; the keys are discolored.
                Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
                14
                These excrescences caught whatever breeze was blowing, and made the craft unmanageable.
                The Story of Cooperstown
                15
                It had neither rudder nor masts, so that it was quite unmanageable.
                Invisible Links
                16
                These awkward rehearsals made the illusion seem even more mysterious and unmanageable.
                Hiding the Elephant
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