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  • adverb In an unusable manner.

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Examples

  • Unfortunately, the game highlights the 3DS' only major shortcoming: placement of its direction pad, which unlike the analogue joystick is unusably near the bottom of the machine.

    Games special: Nintendo 3DS launch 2011

  • Sprouting up like weeds, the archetype is identified by their auto-courts, separated 3 story structures, bay windows, intersecting pitched roofs, and unusably small decks –all wrapped up in a nostalgic faux-craftsman envelope.

    Build Blog » Urban Blight 2008

  • Perhaps I've been corrupted by Photoshop, but regardless, the GIMP just feels unusably arcane and clunky.

    December 29th, 2007 2007

  • I only wish I had it on my mac, but the PPC translation makies it unusably slow for disk intensive stuff.

    The ultimate showdown Sean 2006

  • Hydrogenation allowed manufacturers to make a butter substitute that spreads easily even at refrigerator temperature, where butter is unusably hard.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Naturally, there's an index, and imagine how vast that is; there's an index to that index, still unusably huge, an index cubed, fourth- fifth- and sixth- power indices, and so on out to scores of levels deep.

    languagehat.com: "MISPRONOUNCED" WORDS. 2004

  • Hydrogenation allowed manufacturers to make a butter substitute that spreads easily even at refrigerator temperature, where butter is unusably hard.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • And since the only other major player in this space, eBay/PayPal, has an almost unusably terrible API, they're almost certain to do well.

    Amazon Payment Services - Anil Dash 2003

  • Given the tumble of apparent memory during that trial run though, I postponed maybe forever a full-dress exploration of earlier memories that may be unusably clear, harsh and unconfirmable.

    CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988

  • Given the tumble of apparent memory during that trial run though, I postponed maybe forever a full-dress exploration of earlier memories that may be unusably clear, harsh and unconfirmable.

    CLEAR PICTURES REYNOLDS PRICE 1988

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