unspeakable

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[ UK /ʌnspˈiːkəbə‍l/ ]
[ US /ənˈspikəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. defying expression or description
    indescribable beauty
    ineffable ecstasy
    a thing of untellable splendor
    inexpressible anguish
    indefinable yearnings
    unutterable contempt
    unspeakable happiness
  2. exceptionally bad or displeasing
    abominable workmanship
    a painful performance
    an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room
    terrible handwriting
    dreadful manners
    an awful voice
    atrocious taste
  3. too sacred to be uttered
    the ineffable name of the Deity
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How To Use unspeakable In A Sentence

  • Tiny figures huddled in sweatshops, toiling in unspeakable conditions.
  • A cat less agile than the rest of his species had been known to entangle himself in the little swing window, and to hang there all the night, sending forth unearthly caterwaulings, to the unspeakable terror of Miss Wendover's guest, unfamiliar with the mechanism of the room, and wondering what breed of Hampshire demon or afrit was thus making night hideous. The Golden Calf
  • He heard blood-curdling screams, sounds of unspeakable horrors.
  • In life, we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love.
  • This is the kind of unspeakable inhumanity we are all up against.
  • The subject on which alone he wanted to talk — his own undivorced position — was unspeakable. In Chancery
  • The character sees no alternative to performing an unspeakable act and, in the end, she's the one who will suffer the most from it.
  • The coroner described the crash as one of unspeakable tragedy.
  • And a vulnerable nation was left undefended against an unspeakable threat.
  • The scale of destruction is unthinkable, and the horror is unspeakable.
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