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Meanings of unreadable in English

Not easily deciphered.

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        Usage of unreadable in English
        1
        They seemed to take something from several different sources, leaving them unreadable.
        Summer knight
        2
        Michie's expression, though as usual unreadable, was a new one to Dixon.
        Lucky Jim
        3
        Patents are densely written, nearly unreadable blends of technical and legal jargon.
        Wired
        4
        But as Cerf's own email obsolescence shows, digital communications quickly become unreadable.
        Wired
        5
        He looked at her for several silent seconds with an unreadable expression.
        Wings
        6
        The capitalist newspaper was never actually unread until it was actually unreadable.
        Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays
        7
        Harlen lowered his hand and stared at Duane with an unreadable expression.
        Summer of Night
        8
        The actual chapters of How Football Explains America are all but unreadable.
        The Guardian
        9
        I could speculate on what they thought, but they're unreadable as granite.
        Lit: a memoir
        10
        She is unreadable, that woman, though love lives naked in her face.
        The Maid of the Whispering Hills
        11
        Eric's jaw dropped and he looked at me with an unreadable expression.
        Club dead
        12
        Her eyes, seemingly focused on some other time and place, were unreadable.
        The brazen gambit
        13
        She put the drink down on the floating tray, her expression unreadable.
        Surface detail
        14
        Zvain had looked his way more than once with wide, unreadable eyes.
        The brazen gambit
        15
        She shrank back, and he looked at her with an unreadable expression.
        Inferno
        16
        His present book has many good qualities, but it is almost unreadable.
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        Unreadable through the time
        Unreadable across language varieties
        United States of America
        Common
        United Kingdom
        Less common