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  • adverb In an uncontainable way.

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uncontainable +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • These interconnections inevitably, and ultimately uncontainably, extend to other determinations, such as ethical, or new definitions and denominations, proliferating within a given domain, for example, to different varieties and subspecies of the aesthetic.

    Thinking Singularity with Immanuel Kant and Paul de Man: Aesthetics, Epistemology, History and Politics 2005

  • The warm water rained down over his body as a tide of sensation coursed through him, inexorably and uncontainably.

    Ricochet Brown, Sandra 2006

  • To the extent that I try to contain myself, I become deliriously, uncontainably enamored.

    atrandom Diary Entry atrandom 2005

  • Gaud returned home, feeling withal rather brave, notwithstanding the tears that uncontainably fell.

    An Iceland Fisherman Pierre Loti 1886

  • Language, as a medium for art-unlike paint, say, or the pixels in a computer animation-is completely dynamic, uncontainably chaotic.

    PoetryFoundation.org 2009

  • Language, as a medium for art-unlike paint, say, or the pixels in a computer animation-is completely dynamic, uncontainably chaotic.

    PoetryFoundation.org 2009

  • glitter is also an uncontainably hazardous substance - it is all over the place.

    Art and Craft Confessional by Denise Sharp 2008

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