Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Impossible to appease or satisfy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not to be appeased or pacified; implacable: as, unappeasable anger.
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- adjective not able to be
appeased orsatisfied
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Whigs had been somewhat of the opinion that the opposition would not name a candidate for governor and they now asked with apparent wonder why there should be any opposition to Morehead, at the same time attributing it to what they called the unappeasable appetite of the Democrats for office.
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Rather than focus solely on how to win a war or organize a revolution against an "unappeasable" enemy, as Ledeen calls Iran, our government should focus on quelling the violence in Iraq by engaging Iran in diplomacy, as the bi-partisan Baker-Hamilton Commission suggested.
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Since the enemy is thought of as being totally evil and totally unappeasable, he must be totally eliminated -- if not from the world, at least from the theatre of operations to which the paranoid directs his attention.
George Mitrovich: Liberalism's Uncertain Fate George Mitrovich 2011
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The Democrats fold to appease their unappeasable Republican enemies.
Clancy Sigal: Wimps Don't Win Clancy Sigal 2010
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Since the enemy is thought of as being totally evil and totally unappeasable, he must be totally eliminated -- if not from the world, at least from the theatre of operations to which the paranoid directs his attention.
George Mitrovich: Liberalism's Uncertain Fate George Mitrovich 2011
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He went on: The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never be washed clean again; I know this by my own experience, and to this day I cherish an unappeasable bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old.
Hugh Rawson: Mark Twain's Language: "Bad" Words Then and Now Hugh Rawson 2011
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The Democrats fold to appease their unappeasable Republican enemies.
Clancy Sigal: Wimps Don't Win Clancy Sigal 2010
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The Democrats fold to appease their unappeasable Republican enemies.
Clancy Sigal: Wimps Don't Win Clancy Sigal 2010
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"This deal trade peoples' livelihoods for the votes of a few unappeasable right-wing radicals, and I will not support it," said Rep. Raul Grijalva D., Ariz., chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
Again, Boehner Needs Votes Patrick O'Connor 2011
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He went on: The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never be washed clean again; I know this by my own experience, and to this day I cherish an unappeasable bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old.
Hugh Rawson: Mark Twain's Language: "Bad" Words Then and Now Hugh Rawson 2011
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