insufferable
not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
Origin of insufferable
1Other words from insufferable
- in·suf·fer·a·ble·ness, noun
- in·suf·fer·a·bly, adverb
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How to use insufferable in a sentence
Years later, she stays sane by undermining her captor at every opportunity, pulling the laces of Caroline’s corset painfully tight and serving meals to the insufferable woman’s guests on soiled bed sheets presented as table linens.
The Long Song Is a Brilliant Tale of Slavery’s End in Jamaica, Frustratingly Told | Judy Berman | January 29, 2021 | TimeActors talk insufferably all the time about "risks" they love taking.
A lot of us have also become insufferably smug and complacent.
The insufferably righteous Morgan had followed Harry for years, waiting for him to slip up and break the rules again.
This lady was forty years of age, insufferably proud of her pedigree, and in her manners stiff and repulsive.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. Abbott
So that it would seem that his colleagues of the Convention had found him an insufferably Superior Person.
The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume I (of 2) | Benjamin Ellis MartinWhile between Toro and Suez, though the days were insufferably hot, the nights were colder than any I ever met with.
It was cruel of him, in that insufferably self-assured tone, to brush aside my wishes.
Mavis of Green Hill | Faith BaldwinThe gentleman from Petersburg expressed himself in a style insufferably refined, smart, and correct.
A Sportsman's Sketches | Ivan Turgenev
British Dictionary definitions for insufferable
/ (ɪnˈsʌfərəbəl) /
intolerable; unendurable
Derived forms of insufferable
- insufferableness, noun
- insufferably, adverb
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