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INSUPPORTABLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Incapable of being justified or explained
Synonyms:
indefensible; insupportable; unjustifiable; unwarrantable; unwarranted
Classified under:
Similar:
inexcusable (without excuse or justification)
Context examples:
Insupportable—unnatural—out of the question!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Let our first effusions be less insupportable than those of the generality of travellers.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
To leave this metropolis, said Mr. Micawber, and my friend Mr. Thomas Traddles, without acquitting myself of the pecuniary part of this obligation, would weigh upon my mind to an insupportable extent.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
M. Krempe was not equally docile; and in my condition at that time, of almost insupportable sensitiveness, his harsh blunt encomiums gave me even more pain than the benevolent approbation of M. Waldman.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
That, however, both their majesties would soon be made easy; for I had found a prodigious vessel on the shore, able to carry me on the sea, which he had given orders to fit up, with my own assistance and direction; and he hoped, in a few weeks, both empires would be freed from so insupportable an encumbrance.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Most people would have termed her a splendid woman of her age: and so she was, no doubt, physically speaking; but then there was an expression of almost insupportable haughtiness in her bearing and countenance.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
What I have endured, and do endure here, is insupportable.” And but for the promptitude of that best of creatures,” said Mrs. Markleham, telegraphing the Doctor as before, and refolding the letter, “it would be insupportable to me to think of.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Unjust!—unjust! said my reason, forced by the agonising stimulus into precocious though transitory power: and Resolve, equally wrought up, instigated some strange expedient to achieve escape from insupportable oppression—as running away, or, if that could not be effected, never eating or drinking more, and letting myself die.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
She writhed into some new posture constantly: stiffening her arms, twisting them before her face, as though to shut out from her eyes the little light there was, and drooping her head, as if it were heavy with insupportable recollections.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
