Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- So as to be unapproachable.
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- adverb In an
unapproachable manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I thought of them as bothersome, dirty, unapproachably foreign, frighteningly unpredictable, and plain old unnecessary.
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Rahm Emmanuel, as chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, played a key role in identifying and supporting candidates with a good ideological fit for districts previously seen as unapproachably Republican.
Paul Jenkins: Republicans Fiddle with Abortion While America Burns 2009
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His guide here is Cézanne, who came to see the natural landscape as "unapproachably alien," an "unintelligible arrangement of atoms," and had the wisdom not to intrude himself into its alienness.
The Making of Samuel Beckett Coetzee, J.M. 2009
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The place where she stood seemed to him unapproachably holy, and there was a moment when he almost went away —
Archive 2008-01-01 Bruce Schauble 2008
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The place where she stood seemed to him unapproachably holy, and there was a moment when he almost went away —
Found Poem (100x8) Bruce Schauble 2008
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On one hand it is an almost unapproachably pretentious movie with a title that is difficult to pronounce ‘si-NEK-duh-kee’, by the way.
2008 November 2008
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On one hand it is an almost unapproachably pretentious movie with a title that is difficult to pronounce ‘si-NEK-duh-kee’, by the way.
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Even if you wanted to build a big box retailer in the downtown, the costs would be unapproachably vast.
sirilyan Diary Entry sirilyan 2002
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We had specialised in cherishing Blankets G.S. For fear of loss or damage none had been issued for use, and the enthusiasm of all ranks was so warm that the men were glad to sleep without them, if only they might go and see for themselves the full tally of blankets folded correctly to a hair's-breadth and piled irreproachably and unapproachably in the stores.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 12, 1919 Various
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Beautiful it is indeed, most exquisitely and unapproachably beautiful in many passages, especially about ladies and ladies 'love more than celestial, for Venus loses in comparison her lustre in the sky; but still people were afraid to get into it then as now; and
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 406, December 26, 1829 Various
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