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US
/ˌɪnˈtɑɫɝəbəɫ/
]
[ UK /ɪntˈɒləɹəbəl/ ]
[ UK /ɪntˈɒləɹəbəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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incapable of being tolerated or endured
an intolerable degree of sentimentality
How To Use intolerable In A Sentence
- Life for some researchers has become almost intolerable. Times, Sunday Times
- Problems in his personal life became intolerable for him and he felt unable to face his future.
- Because Selma University was unaccredited, Spring Hill wanted Motley to enter as a freshman, which she found intolerable.
- Three-quarters of the world's population live in conditions that people in the West would find intolerable.
- An extension in opening times will increase the pressure to intolerable levels.
- By medicalising their behavior we give medicine and the state the remit to involuntarily detain and medicate such people to prevent them from behaving in ways society finds intolerable.
- He found the media attention intolerable and went to ground abroad for several months.
- As Franklin the day before had felt, so he now felt, the intolerableness of his woe; and, as with Franklin, the waves closed over his head. Franklin Kane
- The dread in the Baroque originated with the intolerable idea of a body without a soul.
- She philandered with some of them up to the point where comparisons become inevitable, and, so long as they met her in a spirit of frank camaraderie, it was agreeable enough; but when, with their commonplace minds, they presumed to be sentimental, they became intolerable. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius