Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an unquenchable manner; so as to be unquenchable.
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- adverb In a manner that cannot be
quenched .
Etymologies
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Examples
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How could we have hated so deeply as to have become so unquenchably bloodthirsty?
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: An American Jew Roams in Germany Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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Marion Bailey is unforgettable as an unquenchably garrulous gusher who never stops chattering about her own vivaciously active social life.
Grief at Cottesloe, London – review | Michael Billington 2011
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While Washington pundits are talking up a new civility, many progressives are bracing for the old servility -- a bipartisanship that is servile to a corporate elite that is unquenchably greedy and more powerful than ever.
Jeff Cohen: A Time for Action -- Not Servility Jeff Cohen 2011
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He was the centre and the head of the revel, unquenchably joyous, a contagion of fun.
Chapter III 2010
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Luckily, Redmayne possesses one of those unquenchably intriguing bone structures which allows a camera to rest upon it for large expanses of time, hoovering up each blink as he works through the various milli-stages of his grim journey.
Grace Dent: Birdsong 2012
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While Washington pundits are talking up a new civility, many progressives are bracing for the old servility -- a bipartisanship that is servile to a corporate elite that is unquenchably greedy and more powerful than ever.
Jeff Cohen: A Time for Action -- Not Servility Jeff Cohen 2011
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The original was a unquenchably classic worm-that-turns empowerment tale, and featured a still-remarkable final fight scene filmed with such scrappy elan that even now, more than a quarter of a century later, it looks like Ralph Macchio might not manage to take down the bad kid.
The Karate Kid 2010
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So, in other words, Dan Maes is deeply, unquenchably crazy.
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I doubt I'd find a documentary on this subject any more unquenchably interesting than the fictional version, but I found more to like in those fleeting glimpses of archival footage than I did in the film that proceeded them.
Archive 2010-02-01 The Brillig Blogger 2010
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So, in other words, Dan Maes is deeply, unquenchably crazy.
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