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Meanings of unsupportable in English

That cannot be borne or endured.

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Usage of unsupportable in English
1
Without knowledge of its ultimate purpose, life became meaningless, insipid, ultimately unsupportable.
Naomi’s Room
2
The red cinders fell about me, and the heat was unsupportable.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction
3
As to the penance, Sir John, it has been nothing unsupportable.
A Knight of the White Cross: A Tale of the Siege of Rhodes
4
A sense of desolation and loneliness unsupportable swept over her.
Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary
5
From time to time, I rent the universal silence with the roarings of unsupportable despair.
Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are
6
The claims we have made are ungrounded in science, unsupportable when challenged, and wildly wrong.
The Guardian
7
The silence became unsupportable for once to Indian taciturnity.
Over the Pass
8
An unsupportable sense of pain and weariness oppressed her.
A Terrible Secret: A Novel
9
That meant that he did not approve of this arrangement-why?-Reallytheseold servants are unsupportable.
Man and Maid
10
But just as the tête-à-tête was growing unsupportable to Claudia, the door opened and Beatrice entered.
Ishmael; Or, In the Depths
11
To a reasonable creature, that alone is unsupportable which is unreasonable; everything reasonable may be supported.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy
12
This daily importunity rendered Paris more unsupportable, and made me ardently wish to be in the country.
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 08
13
Its very vicinity was unsupportable to him.
In a glass darkly
14
They had first made his life unsupportable, Swanson thought, now they would not let him leave it.
The Lost Road
15
Of course it was a man who conceived the idea of wings, otherwise Cupid would have been unsupportable.
The King in Yellow
16
But this other one is unsupportable.
Cæsar or Nothing
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