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Meanings of unspeakable in English
That cannot be expressed or described with words.
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Examples for "terrible"
Examples for "terrible"
1
The noise was terrific; the sight was terrible in its fierce grandeur.
2
Elizabeth blushed and looked grave; to her the matter seemed too terrible.
3
His Eminence in scarlet is magnificent; his Eminence in gray is terrible.
4
Torches flashed in the boats that put off in the terrible search.
5
The news of the terrible insurrection of the catholics in Ireland followed.
1
The awful in the natural forces, moral and material, seems his element.
2
Southern Asia in general is the seat of awful images and associations.
3
Language which disguises the awful reality of war is often standard practice.
4
The road was in an awful state: it was deep in mud.
5
Never before had there been so awful a crisis in Jewish history.
1
For many in northern Europe, however, the Swiss decision will be painful.
2
The problem began a year ago when penetration started to be painful.
3
Parents often found discussing genetic risk information very difficult and emotionally painful.
4
Therefore, alpha-HBDH is of doubtful value in the diagnosis of painful crisis.
5
ANSWER: This sounds like a difficult and painful situation to be in.
1
We had reached a point where the dreadful partnership could not continue.
2
It was happening; in a dreadful form of slow-motion it was happening.
3
The house bought on make-believe; the house that a penny dreadful built.
4
Those dreadful tragedies have relevance to what is happening in Ireland today.
5
Nearly blind; dreadful pain; can do nothing to-day; no sleep last night.
1
His father, as you know, has abominable views but is relatively harmless.
2
Whole regions have been ravaged and abominable deeds perpetrated in the towns.
3
It was the culmination of the whole abominable selfishness of his sex.
4
Such holes were abominable; some one ought to be prosecuted for it.
5
The execution of this abominable decree devolved upon the daroga of Mazenderan.
1
Still, violence against women and girls persists and takes atrocious new forms.
2
Outside in the atrocious cold the whining malamutes crept nearer and nearer.
3
At this time the atrocious custom of head-hunting prevailed in the island.
4
It can't be stressed enough: John McCain was an atrocious presidential candidate.
5
He was an atrocious criminal was all that was said about him.
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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Unspeakable across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
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