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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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