Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inexhaustible; illimitable.
- Not capable of being stanched, as a bleeding wound.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Incapable of being
stopped or brought to aclose ;unstoppable . - adjective
insatiable
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Examples
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For a moment I thought a profound world-weariness with the unstanchable flow of excremental left-wing idiocies on this site had got to you, and deceived you into adopting a more touchy-feely approach.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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For a moment I thought a profound world-weariness with the unstanchable flow of excremental left-wing idiocies on this site had got to you, and deceived you into adopting a more touchy-feely approach.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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The long-vexed question as to the authorship of the latter parts of _King Henry VI_., in their earlier or later form, has not been touched upon; nor do I design to reopen that perpetual source of debate unstanchable and inexhaustible dispute by any length of scrutiny or inquisition of detail.
A Study of Shakespeare Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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American politician already burdened with false but unstanchable sic scuttlebutt that he is a secret Muslim.
The Guardian World News Riazat Butt 2010
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