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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O, shame! to think that such gray, reverend hairs Should cover such unvenerable heads!
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Emma Lazarus
It had originally been yellow, but time had turned that elegance to ashes, to a turbid sallow unvenerable white.
From What Maisie Knew by Henry James
Miss McCracken, ancient and unvenerable as himself, still kept the accounts.
From Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
No possible antics would astonish me on the part of that unvenerable madman.
From The Certain Hour by James Branch Cabell
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
