Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Insupportably.
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- adverb in an
unsupportable manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sorry, your argument on this point is still looking unsupportably silly.
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By "unsupportably high cost of housing", I mean that the propeties themselves do not always support the high costs.
Archive 2006-06-01 Ellen Beth Gill 2006
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Comment: this is an extremely, I think unsupportably, narrow view of what counts as “disparaging.”
Allegations of patent infringement aren't disparaging (or advertising) Rebecca Tushnet 2006
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That plus the unsupportably high cost of housing in our district causes folks to get in way over their heads.
Archive 2006-06-01 Ellen Beth Gill 2006
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I think more important, it's been a very -- let's be honest -- it's been a deeply weird campaign, meaning the general, as smart as he is, has said odd thing after odd thing after odd thing after unsupportably odd thing.
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The beloved burden in his arms became unsupportably heavy.
The Eternal Maiden T. Everett Harr��
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He turned and hurried down the steps, unlatched the gate, and almost ran across the fields to the cover of a wood, fleeing from an unsupportably humiliating vision.
Mountain Blood A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917
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The Doctor's stories, he thought, went on unsupportably; his wife was wise, correct, just, to a hair's breadth.
Cytherea Joseph Hergesheimer 1917
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But the thing was reaching a natural conclusion when her grandfather, Barzil Dunsack, had interfered with his unsupportably frank accusations and command.
Java Head Joseph Hergesheimer 1917
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He returned to Myrtle Forge from New York with a mingled sense of pleasure and the feeling that his place was unsupportably empty.
The Three Black Pennys A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917
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