Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Not fit to be mentioned or discussed; unspeakable: unmentionable words.
- n. One that is not to be mentioned.
- n. Underwear.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Incapable of being mentioned; unworthy of or unfit for being mentioned, named, or noticed.
Wiktionary
- adj. Not mentionable
WordNet 3.0
- n. a garment worn under other garments
- adj. unsuitable or forbidden as a topic of conversation
Examples
“However, I am irrationally obsessed with the idea of mosquito bites in unmentionable places.”
“To not a few, and not all of them readers of a certain unmentionable newspaper in Chicago, the constitutional monarchy seemed an expensive anachronism.”
“Englishmen will welcome the new American playright with the name unmentionable to ears polite, and will recognise in him, as _the_ Dam _par excellence_, their brother, as one of the uncommon descendants of A-DAM.”
“But I am done with counselling her, - her tendency towards the unmentionable is too strong for/me/to stay it.”
“Ummm … yes – I’d have to say he was bit in unmentionable areas.”
“The War on Terror debate’s great unmentionable is this: We lack the technology to get from here to there.”
“So far as I have been able to determine since our return, I think that I came away from the experience with nearly 400 digital photos, 60 lbs of dirty laundry, innumerable mosquito bites in unmentionable places and the discomfiting realization that I am currently marching determinedly into the condition of being relentlessly boring and that that’s okay.”
“As Alistair Burt MP has said, there is a great unmentionable, which is money, but behind that lies that other great unmentionable, which is the immense cost of a situation where generations don't talk to each other within families, because there is not enough stability and trust to secure and nurture and take forward that kind of conversation.”
“It's the terrible desire for the cleanliness of the mouth, synonymous with the cleaning-up of speech, the religio-consumerist purity trip, upon which Burroughs pours his spleen, driven to despoil the pristine gleaming surface with so-called unmentionable dirty words like blood and Kotex and sperm and shit - Benway literally splatters that tiled wall with blood, the lavatory turned into a filthy operating theatre and dripping corrida.”
“And that's fine, I mean I've come to terms with the fact that Leo Dicaprio will never play out on the big screen the time I bombed my speech at my high school graduation or the time I crashed my boss's car (which are two of three things worth showing in my movie ... the third is what I classify as "unmentionable" ...)”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘unmentionable’.
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Mating rituals?
Human rituals. They are the most entertaining ones.
bird move, mollycoddle, pillow talk, love to pieces, first base, tweet love muffin, pick-up line, snuggle, arm candy, fuckbuddy, marrydom, unmentionable and 11 more...
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Un-word List
untrammelled, untoward, unenthusiastically, unenthusiastic, undaunted, uncanny, unceasing, unbridled, unacknowledged, unacquainted, unadorned, unaffected and 239 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for unmentionable.
nuxiy Twitter is awesome. Too bad it isnt really used much in Norway. Mar 26, 2009
lea Is this my.. pants status? I'm quite newbie on Twitter... *rolling her eyes in horror* Mar 26, 2009
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:-) Mar 26, 2009
lea Poo: A Natural History of the Unmentionable. This must be some sort of a sign of civilization... or then not. Mar 26, 2009