intolerability
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Yet even a mosquito bite, painful but bearable at first, if repeated enough times can create a state of such intolerability that the person under attack will eventually collapse.
From Slate ● Feb. 20, 2023
The study revealed that the company should not use the higher doses “because of intolerability, perhaps due to natural uracil?” he says.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 18, 2021
Of this list, most bad bosses mix several nasty traits to create their own particular flavor of intolerability.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 19, 2019
Elsewhere in the book, Sebald is regularly provoked to humorous indignation by the stubborn intolerability of English service.
From The New Yorker ● May 29, 2017
If I were to measure my deserts by people's remembrance of me, I should be a prodigy of intolerability.
From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John
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