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UK
/ɪnsəpˈɔːtəbəl/
]
[ US /ˌɪnsəˈpɔɹtəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnsəˈpɔɹtəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- incapable of being justified or explained
How To Use insupportable In A Sentence
- The added demands brought about by the ageing population will place an insupportable burden on acute hospital services.
- Anthony had written that life without Anna had no savour, was tedious, insupportable. IN LOVE AND WAR
- Too much spending on rearmament would place an insupportable burden on the nation'sproductive capacity.
- She called him "insupportable:" she railed at him for a "dévot:" she did not love, but she wanted to marry, that she might bind him to her interest. Villette
- The Israeli army doesn't even make this insupportable claim.
- Too many liberals, who approved the words, found the actions insupportable.
- I like how the court thinks; I am increasingly of the opinion that the multifactor confusion test, though it has its weaknesses, is superior to the rigid and ultimately insupportable falsity/misleadingness distinction. Archive 2009-06-01
- “It is my duty,” says Sir Charles Bell, “to visit certain wards of the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain and certain death. Uncollected Prose
- Here we have a simple tale of him leaping to conclusions, making unsupported and insupportable inferences, and being treated as a hero for it.
- The arguments for restrictions on sales of ugly fruit are so ‘rotten’ that they are logically insupportable.