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  • adjective Not assessable; that cannot be assessed.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ assessable

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Examples

  • * An erratically reliable or unassessable press might not matter for privileged people with other sources of information.

    Alan Rusbridger: Corporate Social Responsibility and Newspapers 2008

  • A few come back and say they went on to read Tristram Shandy or something and I'm, of course, delighted, but it's, as you say, the unassessable stuff that matters.

    No Such Thing delagar 2006

  • What both good and bad tax advisers take in time is simply unassessable.

    An Autobiography Peter, Ustinov 1977

  • The book contains eight full-dress murders, an unassessable number of casual killings and woundings, an exhumation (with a careful reminder of the stench), the flogging of Miss Blandish, the torture of another woman with red-hot cigarette-ends, a strip-tease act, a third-degree scene of unheard-of cruelty and much else of the same kind.

    Raffles and Miss Blandish 1944

  • The book contains eight full-dress murders, an unassessable number of casual killings and woundings, an exhumation (with a careful reminder of the stench), the flogging of Miss Blandish, the torture of another woman with red-hot cigarette-ends, a strip-tease act, a third-degree scene of unheard-of cruelty and much else of the same kind.

    Collected Essays 1900

  • The stock in this company is all full paid and entirely unassessable.

    Roughing It, Part 6. Mark Twain 1872

  • The stock in this company is all full paid and entirely unassessable.

    Roughing It Mark Twain 1872

  • The stock in this company is all full paid and entirely unassessable.

    Roughing It 1871

  • It's a gentle, earnest book that does its darnedest to assess Microsoft's future, which is, of course, unassessable.

    Pogue's Posts 2009

  • It's a gentle, earnest book that does its darnedest to assess Microsoft's future, which is, of course, unassessable.

    Pogue's Posts 2009

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