(a.) Incapable of being suffered, borne, or endured; insupportable; unendurable; intolerable; as, insufferable heat, cold, or pain; insufferable wrongs.
(a.) Offensive beyond endurance; detestable.
Example Sentences:
(1) He could take the most pitiful souls – his CV was populated almost exclusively by snivelling wretches, insufferable prigs, braggarts and outright bullies – and imbue each of them with a wrenching humanity.
(2) The intelligence minister, Yuval Steinitz, of Netanyahu's ruling Likud party, called Kerry's comments "offensive, unfair and insufferable".
(3) They can be insufferably smug, much more so than the people who knew they had achieved advancement not on their own merit but because they were, as somebody's son or daughter, the beneficiaries of nepotism.
(4) The flood of applications it now faces – around 3,000 in March alone, three times more than last year’s monthly average – has put it under “insufferable pressure” according to senior asylum officials in Athens.
(5) The voluntary euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke has accused the Northern Territory branch of the Australian Medical Association of “insufferable arrogance and paternalism” because it refused to reinstate his membership after a supreme court decision overturned the suspension of his medical licence.
(6) Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, vowed to press on with "Operation Protective Edge", promising that Hamas would pay "an insufferable price" for continued cross-border rocket fire.
(7) I find some passages of Wagner insufferably tedious.
(8) 6.40pm BST An early email from Zachary Gomperts-Mitchelson "Now, I know you said arguably, and trying, admittedly not that hard, to avoid sounding like an insufferable pedant, but surly the biggest game in Dortmund's history has got to be the Champions League final against Juventus that they won in 1996?"
(9) "Let me completely fail to avoid sounding like an insufferable pedant by saying that Zachary Gomperts-Mitchelson succintly said what we were all thinking, except that Dortmund won the Champions' League in 1997, not 1996," he writes.
(10) You have to generate some sense of bigness on your own; that’s an insufferable activity.” It is important here to note Franzen’s Midwestern background – he was raised in a suburb of St Louis, Missouri, a part of the US with a regional identity strongly rooted in humility, so Franzen’s arrogance is in some ways a performance.
(11) Everything goes in circles … I could have used less of Bono's insufferable musings and a lot more archival footage of Wilson Pickett and any number of other lost greats but, then again, I'm the viewer who wishes this thing was nine hours long, not two.
(12) The Brontës are shown, with understated relish, as lonely, half-mad spinsters, surrounded by insufferable yokels and the unmentionable stench of death.
(13) Council understands that no such appeal was received and, as such, your expulsion stands.” Philip Nitschke wins appeal over medical licence suspension Read more In response, Nitschke released a statement accusing the AMA of ignoring the decision of the supreme court which overturned his deregistration, and of demonstrating “the insufferable arrogance and paternalism of the medical profession”.
(14) But our world is far from perfect, and it’s unlikely that people will stop being as insufferable as they (we) are.
(15) Silence is a skill we’re in danger of losing, and libraries provide it with a lot less of the insufferable smugness of churches and vegan meditation retreats.
(16) Hyperendemic and insufferable in 1940, onchocerciasis has become, in 1985, hypoendemic and no longer a public health problem.
(17) Terez Williamson (@terez07) Skip the insufferable #BandAid30 .
(18) While the investigation thickens, insufferable new age oracle GJ comforts her acolytes by saying, "I like penis," while her chinos billow dramatically in the breeze.
(19) @LengelDavid October 24, 2013 3.23am BST Adam Wainwright's line So Mike Matheny removes his starter after 95 pitches - he suffered from insufferable defense, he is not excused from such a critique.
(20) But on Thursday, the news programme, first aired in 1967, suffered a different sort of blow – beaten in the ratings by bawdy ITV2 panel show, Celebrity Juice, hosted by Keith Lemon , the outspoken, some would say insufferable, creation of former Bo' Selecta Leigh Francis.
Insupportable
Definition:
(a.) Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some children appear to cope with the experience of parental suicide without serious consequences; for a few there was relief from an insupportable situation.
(2) A neonatal total artificial heart (TAH), used as a bridging device, can offer circulatory support for patients suffering from otherwise insupportable and inoperable congenital cardiac defects.
(3) It is argued that, under a pay-as-you-go system, future generations are committed to burdens without their consent; that claims are not contractually guaranteed; that early entrants reap windfalls gains; that successive cohorts are tempted to provide insupportably high benefit levels; and, finally, that fluctuations leave future generations at unacceptable risk.
(4) But the food was beyond bad: insupportable, in David's view, even allowing for the shortages; she was overcome with a sense of "embattled rage that we should be asked – and should accept – the endurance of such cooking".
(5) It's unacceptable, it's inappropriate and it's insupportable from every perspective and Alan knows that.
(6) Evaluates the the act frequency approach (AFA), noting that retrospective self-reports rather than behavioral acts are studied; act context and meaning are not considered; the AFA self-report inventories are incompletely developed and are psychometrically unsound; the AFA claim of absolute measurement of dispositions is insupportable; many of the self-report act statements used are technically unacceptable or conceptually unwarranted; the research agenda of the AFA primarily involves only "internal analyses" of self-report "act" inventories and indices and proposes the further creation of "act" inventories to index thousands of conceptually unorderable dispositions.
(7) His confinement in his father's house became insupportable.
(8) Africa’s first woman bishop, the Right Reverend Ellinah Wamukoya, also a member of the ACEN, said the fact the burden of climate change would fall disproportionately on the world’s women was morally insupportable.
(9) The situation in the UK (as in Italy) continues to be insupportable, yet somewhat like "serfs", we've seemed resigned to suffering it, as if no serious alternative existed.
(10) For Obama to attack Iran would be morally insupportable: it would be a rupture of faith.
(11) The assumption that community health will thereby be improved remains questionable even in developed countries, and is insupportable in developing countries.
(12) Meanwhile, the costs of a very elaborate new system mount insupportably the fewer newspapers, magazines and websites join.
(13) However, it is insupportable that financial pressures on local councils should be the excuse for people with dementia not being able to access vital care and support.” Vicky McDermott, chair of the Care & Support Alliance : “The government has made the right decision to delay the introduction of the care cap.
(14) Let us not forget that for many people, the practice of liberty is an insupportable challenge.
(15) Kennedy recognized that he would be in an "insupportable position if this becomes [Khrushchev's] proposal", both because the Turkish missiles were useless and were being withdrawn anyway, and because "it's gonna – to any man at the United Nations or any other rational man, it will look like a very fair trade."