(a.) Not capable of being imitated, copied, or counterfeited; beyond imitation; surpassingly excellent; matchless; unrivaled; exceptional; unique; as, an inimitable style; inimitable eloquence.
Example Sentences:
(1) Diego Costa, fit enough to reclaim the position he occupies in inimitable fashion, hassled a defender and nudged at the opposition goalkeeper just because he can’t resist it.
(2) He took his cameras to a school run by Save the Children in Kenya, for homeless boys from Nairobi, for instance, that was set up along the lines of a British public school; the children are shown blowing bugles, marching, reading books including The Inimitable Jeeves and Tom Brown's Schooldays.
(3) The "swazzle" – a device puppeteers use to create Punch's inimitable squawk – has been passed down through five generations of the Codman family.
(4) Tomorrow at 11.15, a wreath commemorating the 200th year of Charles Dickens's birth will be laid at Westminster Abbey – where his bones lie – and, one half expects, the nation will observe two minutes' silence for "the Great Inimitable".
(5) Country music star Dolly Parton has answered the critics who questioned whether she was miming during her Glastonbury set in her own inimitable style, telling the Sun : "My boobs are fake, my hair's fake but what is real is my voice and my heart."
(6) Nigel Farage, complaining in his inimitably “non-racist” way that it’s only a matter of time before a British holidaymaker or lorry driver dies as a result of the Calais migrant crisis, ought to be ashamed to admit that such petty league tables of human mortality lurk in the darkest recesses of his mind.
(7) Watch here This leaves the McBusted lineup slightly lopsided, with Dougie Poynter, Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones and Harry Judd repping for McFly, and only Matt Willis and James Bourne around to inject some of Busted's inimitable aesthetic.
(8) Mr Dickens, you are still, and always will be, the Inimitable.
(9) 4.42pm BST Heeeerre's The Fiver … … with it's own inimitable take on Summer Transfer Deadline Day 2013 , or as I'm beginning to think of it STDD13 4.39pm BST "Birmingham Mail deadline day tracker have been reporting all day that Villa are looking to sign Libor Kozak from Lazio," emails Dunstan Kesseler.
(10) "He would revise tirelessly and the room could be inundated with papers, gradually to be organised and collated and resulting frequently in a poem appearing complete and written out in his inimitable hand on a large sheet of cardboard to be seen as well as read."
(11) His letters and journals - many written with an eye towards publication - vividly conjure the life and times of an inimitable self-dramatiser ("Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other," he declaimed).
(12) In flooded the parodies - including the inimitable Sir Patrick Stewart holding a tube of wet wipes to his ear.
(13) And then there’s the inimitable Paul Ryan, who reminded us that “freedom is the ability to buy what you want to fit what you need.
(14) This place feels as old as time itself: the Etruscans were here, there is a Roman amphitheatre and the Medici made their inimitable and indelible mark with a fortress, which they converted into a prison.
(15) Shows that follow include a set by the satirical rockers Jonny & The Baptists ; a one man show called Berkoff the Inimitable; and comedy from the sketch quartet Four Screws Loose .
(16) It became famous for Kirsty Young perching on her desk, but Channel 5 News looks set for another kind of revolution with channel owner Richard Desmond wanting to stamp his inimitable mark on its news programmes.
(17) Even for boxing, a sport which, for all its inimitable thrills, still offers up cringeworthy matchups with alarming frequency, this is bad.
(18) Nishville, however, disagreed: There's more variation in a single episode of Blackadder than in all 11 seasons of Frasier … I really struggle to understand where this British complex of inferiority to the Americans comes from, your comedy is not about quantity but highly compressed inimitable quality.
(19) Daft Punk are at No 1 in the album charts with Random Access Memories, thanks in no small part to the lead single Get Lucky – a showcase for the inimitable rhythmic guitar of Chic's Nile Rodgers.
(20) "We were much better than Vitesse but just didn't play well," said van Gaal, flashing his inimitable logic.
Peerless
Definition:
(a.) Having no peer or equal; matchless; superlative.
Example Sentences:
(1) Charles Peerless, manager of the West End and City branches of Winkworths estate agency, said: "We've had gazumping on two lower priced properties - around the £360,000 mark - in January.
(2) Consider their peerless dead parrot sketch which, in many people's memories, ends when Cleese does his huge rant, and Palin grudgingly offers to replace the bird.
(3) Taken together, these myriad aspects add up to create a fabulously singular and peerless holistic experience that stands alone in its creativity and innovation,” organisers said.
(4) I remember most vividly, as the prey was seized, how one lazuline wing fell outwards like a flag; the hobby's wings seemed to chop and paddle and there was this momentary drama-less inelegance to it, then the falcon swept the victim back into the peerless symmetry of its going, and all was done.
(5) Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian The point of this area of Dorset is its peerless loveliness.
(6) Just one problem: she was singing the praises of Donald Trump, that peerless narcissist, deceiver, dodgy deal maker and demagogue.
(7) Logistically, it was a triumph, underlining the peerless efficiency and organisational capacity of the political machine he controls, the Justice and Development party (AK), which he founded in 2001 and has governed Turkey since the 2002 election.
(8) And Jed, played by the peerless Elizabeth Debicki , as the prize.
(9) There's a bit on the pulpy flamboyance of Italy's giallo thrillers, a segment on Argento's peerlessly tasteless memorabilia shop ("Is that a torso?")
(10) The company claims the car will boast "peerless riding dynamics", and a suspension that will automatically adjust when passengers move around the car.
(11) It's known as the "welfare market", a peerless example of double-speak in which people's welfare is ignored and market forces dominate.
(12) Tunic-style tops over trousers are also permissible, if not always all that flattering, as generously demonstrated by the once peerless Anna in the quite gaspingly abysmal This Life + 10 last week.
(13) I would like to thank my peerless staff for the creativity and spark they have brought to the paper day after day.
(14) There are shows you can't imagine finding a home anywhere else on the BBC network: Jarvis Cocker's intriguing Sunday Service, the Classic Rock Sequence that trawls the BBC archives, and, most notably, Stuart Maconie's peerless Freak Zone, a repository for music that everyone else ignores, and perhaps the most challenging and eclectic "rock" show in Britain.
(15) Trump’s quasi-fictional, aggressive and unalloyed nativism and misogyny immediately shoved the rest of the Republican candidates to the left, co-opting the “real” conservative mantle while offering a peerless non-career-politician pedigree.
(16) As Newcastle’s all powerful chief scout and de facto director of football the 71-year-old won plenty of plaudits a few years ago when his apparently peerless French contacts facilitated the acquisitions of Yohan Cabaye and Mathieu Debuchy.
(17) Throughout the early-80s, they crafted a string of peerlessly gloomy records – dark ink-blots of despair like 1981's Faith and 1982's Pornography – before changing direction and guiding their sound into poppier realms.
(18) But he was reassured by the director's reputation and by the presence of a peerless supporting cast.
(19) If we tried to replace Jon Stewart with just a younger version of Jon Stewart, it would be probably be a fool’s errand because Jon is sort of peerless,” said Alterman, citing the network’s desire to connect with a younger audience.
(20) A peerless networker, he was so plugged into all sides of the political establishment that he played tennis with the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg and chose the Labour peer Lord Adonis as godfather to one of his three children.