venerable
adjective
commanding respect because of great age or impressive dignity; worthy of veneration or reverence, as because of high office or noble character.
unvenerable
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a word derived from
venerable.
Example Sentences
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Miss McCracken, ancient and unvenerable as himself, still kept the accounts.
From Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
And the aged unvenerable Grand-Duke of Saxe-Kesselberg died too in the same March; and afterward his other grandson, Prince Augustus, reigned in the merry old debauchee's stead.
From The Certain Hour by James Branch Cabell
That altogether unvenerable yet profoundly venerating Scottish gentleman,—that queerest mixture of qualities, of force and weakness, blindness and insight, vanity and solid worth,—has written the finest book of its kind which our nation possesses.
From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Alexander Smith
The streets have a dull monotonous appearance, and the ancient unvenerable houses are grimy to blackness with the accumulation of soot on them.
From Fan : the story of a young girl's life by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
His long and unvenerable hairs strayed loose beneath the dunghill relic which crowned them.
From Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray by David Christie Murray
