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  • adverb In an unprintable way; obscenely.

Etymologies

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unprintable +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Conversations around New York with Cardboard LeBron ran the gamut from the unprintably profane to the violent (by the end of the day, he had suffered a sizable gash on his neck) to one complimentary monologue that went on for at least 40 minutes (or at least it felt that long).

    LeBron James, Meet the City Of New York Sophia Hollander 2010

  • As far as we moderns are concerned, until fairly recently, the simple answer would have been ‘unprintably so’.

    Archive 2009-11-01 Sam Jordison 2009

  • As far as we moderns are concerned, until fairly recently, the simple answer would have been ‘unprintably so’.

    Catullus still rocks 2000 years on Sam Jordison 2009

  • Hoffman, dressed as a hospital patient, was doing a nearly libelous impersonation of Evans about to give birth, having been knocked up by the agent Sue Mengers, and babbling unprintably.

    The Kid Is All Right 2008

  • They sang rollicking songs, sad songs, unprintably ribald songs, but usually ended with a sacred hymn.

    THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007

  • Unfortunately the first part of this is unprintably insulting about the host for the evening, who with her “henchwomen” led the other old ladies “from A to B . . . like a school girls party”--don't want to type it up here and risk offending anybody The actual concert was rather a trial.

    Music, literature, knitting Jenny Davidson 2005

  • Unfortunately the first part of this is unprintably insulting about the host for the evening, who with her “henchwomen” led the other old ladies “from A to B . . . like a school girls party”--don't want to type it up here and risk offending anybody The actual concert was rather a trial.

    Archive 2005-06-01 Jenny Davidson 2005

  • "Yeah, but not for no" 'doubly and unprintably qualified " "damn robber.

    Gray Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950

  • "Go then unprintably to the campfire with thy obscene dynamite."

    For Whom The Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1940

  • "Go then unprintably to the campfire with thy obscene dynamite."

    For Whom The Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1940

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