Definitions
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- adjective Incapable of being
helped .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Most public men and all lawyers have been appealed to by victims of this sense of injustice -- the most unhelpable of afflictions in a society like ours.
Captain Brassbound's Conversion George Bernard Shaw 1903
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If one half of the money that is spent trying to help unhelpable people was spent in helping the kind of families I refer to in the manner I describe, the results would be surprising.
London's Underworld Thomas Holmes 1882
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That pathetic letter which comes to you from the incapable, the unhelpable -- how do you who are familiar with it answer it?
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A cursed confusion indeed is the universe, if it be no creation, but the helpless unhelpable thing such men would have us believe it -- the hotbed mother of the children of an iron Necessity.
Thomas Wingfold, Curate V3 George MacDonald 1864
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A cursed confusion indeed is the universe, if it be no creation, but the helpless unhelpable thing such men would have us believe it -- the hotbed mother of the children of an iron Necessity.
Thomas Wingfold, Curate George MacDonald 1864
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And yet for all of Solondz's mischief, we sense he likes his unhelpable characters, and that they maybe like each other.
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The question was loaded with expectations and a desire to help an unhelpable situation.
Miss Britt 2009
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How awful for this boy to have to go through this ordeal, because the parents wanted to help the unhelpable.
UnionLeader.com -- RSS feeds -- New Hampshire news, business and sports 2009
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I have a hard time agreeing with helping people that prove unhelpable.
blog maverick 2008
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But I wouldn’t think this a great idea if the so-called ‘easy’ cases were proving unhelpable …?
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