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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an inexpressible manner or degree; unspeakably; unutterably: as, an inexpressibly dreary day.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In an inexpressible manner or degree; unspeakably; unutterably.

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  • adverb In an inexpressible manner.

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Examples

  • There was an old family Bible, a torn copy of 'Culpepper's' Herbal, 'the Homilies in inexpressibly greasy black calf, a book of songs, a volume called' Evelina, 'which seemed chiefly remarkable for dashes and notes of admiration, and – the book I chose.

    Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances 1869

  • That ere young woman's woke up from her dream ", (he lengthened the word inexpressibly)" by this time, that she is.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • That ere young woman's woke up from her dream ", (he lengthened the word inexpressibly)" by this time, that she is.

    Rhoda Fleming — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • That ere young woman's woke up from her dream ", (he lengthened the word inexpressibly)" by this time, that she is.

    Rhoda Fleming — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868

  • I was twice nocturnally in ancient public transportation with interior decoration that can only have drawn its inspiration from the interior of a coffin: dark, quilted material, gleaming metal trim, dim lights and eerie, and all of it inexpressibly shabby, like faded luxury all jerking around in the habitual patterns of traffic here as if undergoing an eternally incipient rigor mortis.

    A Cold Shower « Unknowing 2010

  • While I can imagine that he might value his daughter's ridicule of the undignified and embarrassing aspects of his final illness as a farcical, tragicomic gag at his own expense, I believe that he would be "inexpressibly sad," a phrase he used, for the world to learn that he died unliked and unloved by one of his own children.

    A Roaring Literary Lion Winston Groom 2011

  • I am inexpressibly proud of you for taking this on, knowing your reluctance in the past.

    Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

  • The president was, he said, “inexpressibly shocked by the apparent reversal of this policy.”

    Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

  • Mercedes-Benz But with the new 2012 Mercedes-Benz SLK redesign, the designers went in a very different direction, developing a car that echoes most of the cues, the proportions, and the ratios of Mercedes's bigger, more expensive, and inexpressibly more masculine convertible, the SL.

    Where Aggressive Meets Adorable 2011

  • Their food, which consisted of tubers, bulbs, and fruits, was to me inexpressibly disagreeable, but nothing offended them so much as to show dislike to it.

    Of the Fungoid People « Unknowing 2010

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