Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Insupportably.

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  • adverb in an unsupportable manner

Etymologies

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unsupportable +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Sorry, your argument on this point is still looking unsupportably silly.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Peretz on the Cairo Speech: 2009

  • By "unsupportably high cost of housing", I mean that the propeties themselves do not always support the high costs.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Ellen Beth Gill 2006

  • Comment: this is an extremely, I think unsupportably, narrow view of what counts as “disparaging.”

    Allegations of patent infringement aren't disparaging (or advertising) Rebecca Tushnet 2006

  • That plus the unsupportably high cost of housing in our district causes folks to get in way over their heads.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Ellen Beth Gill 2006

  • I think more important, it's been a very -- let's be honest -- it's been a deeply weird campaign, meaning the general, as smart as he is, has said odd thing after odd thing after odd thing after unsupportably odd thing.

    CNN Transcript Jan 27, 2004 2004

  • The beloved burden in his arms became unsupportably heavy.

    The Eternal Maiden T. Everett Harr��

  • He turned and hurried down the steps, unlatched the gate, and almost ran across the fields to the cover of a wood, fleeing from an unsupportably humiliating vision.

    Mountain Blood A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • The Doctor's stories, he thought, went on unsupportably; his wife was wise, correct, just, to a hair's breadth.

    Cytherea Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • But the thing was reaching a natural conclusion when her grandfather, Barzil Dunsack, had interfered with his unsupportably frank accusations and command.

    Java Head Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • He returned to Myrtle Forge from New York with a mingled sense of pleasure and the feeling that his place was unsupportably empty.

    The Three Black Pennys A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

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