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Meanings of unspeakable in English
That cannot be expressed or described with words.
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Examples for "indescribable"
Examples for "indescribable"
1
In the third was the Queen, in bed, and in indescribable affliction.
2
All the remainder of the raiment they indulged in was utterly indescribable.
3
The wonder of it is almost indescribable and changes all the time.
4
The invaders left it in an indescribable state of disorder and filth.
5
In a word, the confusion and untidiness of the room were indescribable.
1
We are left with something far more potent, an unspoken, unutterable horror.
2
An unutterable sadness seizes the reader as the inevitable black thread appears.
3
Thus ends, in unavoidable inadequacy, the attempt to utter the unutterable things.
4
The men merely gaped and observed the miraculous revival with faith unutterable.
5
The reviewing page of the standard newspaper fills me with unutterable depression.
1
The silence was a tribute to the ineffable sanctity of the place.
2
It is the initial of the ineffable name, as known by us.
3
The ineffable peace of Death seemed to dwell upon the quiet features.
4
She watched me in silence, and with an air of ineffable solicitude.
5
The eyes of Venetia Corona followed her with something of ineffable pity.
1
It's an indefinable quality, but pedigree sure counts in Europe's premier competition.
2
Simply being alive at that moment seemed, in some indefinable way, ungentlemanly.
3
He hadn't exactly matured; but he had in some indefinable sense broadened.
4
The quality of Theroen's voice as he spoke the word was indefinable.
5
Inside the drain, something indefinable glistened, reflecting the flashlight beam; it moved.
1
The young people picked up on something strong and unnameable in him.
2
An unnameable tune tried to begin, then gave up with a mechanical sigh.
3
An unnameable worry becomes a nameable one -a loss or a cut.
4
It was not a curse, nor a prayer, but some third possibility, unnameable.
5
Be sure that at the worst the unnameable shall not happen to the maids.
1
What untellable joys and ecstasies-whatsupport to martyrs at the stake-fromit.
2
The untellable thing-forSkag alone-lingeredin Carlin's eyes, in the pallor of her face.
3
The broth and arrowroot, and other messes, sir, that she makes me swallow, are untellable.
4
There was a famous story of "a n'orse"-butthat is untellable.
5
She would ask him to tell her about his vision; and was not the thing untellable?
1
As animated, as diversified, as social, but with circumstances of superiority undescribable.
2
He counts it all nonsense that they say, that some things are undescribable.
3
To hear that he was still in being gave an undescribable relief to her mind.
4
But now quiet, save for an undescribable, whispering overtone that seemed to permeate the air.
5
Death in this form, death from the hand of a brother, was thought upon with undescribable repugnance.
Usage of unspeakable in English
1
Young adult Americans, particularly graduates, are tormented by that unspeakable tyrant: success.
2
His mother's disease, that great unspeakable subject, grew obscenely large between them.
3
We know how to comfort, how to help people speak the unspeakable.
4
But that's how some people react to deception -with unspeakable violence.
5
The loss to literature and to his friends and family is unspeakable.
6
Their nearness was an unspeakable comfort to the two in the crevice.
7
An evilly disposed despot could have used it to practice unspeakable oppression.
8
Like the Germans in retreat from Flanders, the Turks practiced unspeakable horrors.
9
The most unspeakable sectarian abuse was hurled at them by local loyalists.
10
The unspeakable odor of their hairy bodies is in my nostrils yet.
11
A few instants after I pulled up my legs in unspeakable terror.
12
She felt overwhelmed with the cruel degradation of it, the unspeakable shame.
13
To speak was to expose another to the possibility of the unspeakable.
14
An expression of unspeakable horror contracted the beautiful features of the countess.
15
Alobar couldn't believe how calmly, serenely even, she had spoken the unspeakable.
16
Or has she herself committed an unspeakable crime and is feigning insanity?
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United States of America
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