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ADVERB
- in an extremely arrogant or conceited manner
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to an insufferable degree
it was insufferably hot in the room
How To Use insufferably In A Sentence
- Actress Frances O'Connor brings a refreshing candour to the most insufferably priggish of all Austen's heroines, Fanny Price, and Alessandro Nivola is irresistibly rakish as her potential beau.
- insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter
- It occurred to me soon after Sam got home, in fact-when I felt lighter, happier, and had exercised my bragging rights insufferably about his adaptation to college-that the term empty nest is a misnomer. Slate Magazine
- Or the happy-go-lucky, pie-eyed optimist who, um, seems to exist only in the minds of detractors who say "insufferably Spielbergian" without clarifying further? Up, George Lucas, the spirit of adventure, and the myth of the fallen angel
- They were so insufferably sincere, these two, Septach Melayn in his elegant knightly way, Gialaurys in his own blunter style. LORD PRESTIMION
- it was insufferably hot in the room
- In truth, he looked like a sleek well-fed cat, insufferably well-pleased with himself. HERE BE DRAGONS
- Say what you want about any of the other Bonds now but I believe we can already begin to see what I think will be roundly accepted within twenty years: That Brosnan was the most indistinctive, insufferably boring Bond ever. cinebeats says; December 3, 2007 @ 12:28 pm Last of the Secret Agents? (1966)
- Mr. Lewis takes an insufferably glib attitude toward it all.
- No wonder some find his music insufferably boring and pedantic.