inappeasable
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of inappeasable
First recorded in 1830–40; in- 3 + appeasable ( def. )
Example Sentences
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It is no wonder that so inappeasable a lover of justice should commend that virtue above all others to his son.
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Inappeasable, in-ap-pēz′a-bl, adj. that cannot be appeased.
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An instant later the party was feeding itself into the inappeasable hopper of the revolving door, and so disappeared.
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She was never weary of hearing the child praised: her appetite for compliments was inappeasable.
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Taine said of him: "Leonardo da Vinci is the inventor by anticipation of all the modern ideas and of all the modern curiosities, a universal and refined genius, a solitary and inappeasable investigator, pushing his divinations beyond his century so as at some times to reach ours."
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