unvenerable
- 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 Lazarus, Emma
It had originally been yellow, but time had turned that elegance to ashes, to a turbid sallow unvenerable white.
From What Maisie Knew by James, Henry
At the best, as we say, a somewhat despicable, unvenerable thing, this same 'Laissez-faire;' and now, at the worst, fast growing an altogether detestable one!
From Past and Present by Carlyle, Thomas
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 Smith, Alexander
Miss McCracken, ancient and unvenerable as himself, still kept the accounts.
From Tales of the Jazz Age by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
