Insufferably
[ɪn'sʌfərəbli]
Definition
(adv.) In a manner or to a degree beyond endurance; intolerably; as, a blaze insufferably bright; a person insufferably proud.
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Examples
- I never resist a temptation to plunder a stranger's premises without feeling insufferably vain about it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Insufferably impertinent! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- You shall see him, and judge for yourself; although I fear this visit, useless to him, will be insufferably painful to you. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Small-beer as she was, she had turned insufferably acid. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Everything annoyed him that day--the parade was insufferably hot and wearisome. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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