(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.
Unbearable
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) This unbearable situation leads to panic and auto-sensory deprivation.
(2) Thus tissue and cellular damage may not be ischemic in nature but rather mediated by other mechanisms such as unbearable mechanical stress.
(3) Otherwise it’s unbearable.” She glances over my shoulder again: “I’m going to have to change position.
(4) He also thanked nearly everyone who had been involved in the trial: his attorneys, his family, everyone who testified “with dignity” about their “unbearable” hardships.
(5) Often the prospect of going to court for victims is unbearable; they feel they have already been judged and they don’t want to go through the abuse again.
(6) For the patients with unbearable paroxystic pain, when medical treatment failed, the destruction of deafferented dorsal horns at the level of avulsion (Nashold procedure) could produce pain relief.
(7) When facing the abortion question the following are necessary: more complete information on the consequences of indiscriminate sexual relations; a wider spread knowledge of contraceptive practices; the institution of special aid to unmarried mothers so as to prevent abortion remaining the only possible solution for an unbearable situation and which hides a serious psychological risk.
(8) Anyone expecting the public to suddenly turn on Ailes in a way it hasn’t before is likely to be disappointed, Tyndall said, adding that part of Fox News’s classic-TV appeal is a re-creation of the permissive atmosphere that has historically made life unbearable for women in entertainment.
(9) Berg sat with Leija on Thursday evening, learning to sing Chris Medina's What Are Words, which includes lyrics that could be considered unbearably trite were they not now so fitting: "And I know an angel was sent just for me, And I know I'm meant to be where I am, And I'm gonna be, Standing right beside her tonight."
(10) And which, in the case of Scarlett and MacKeown, grasps at any semblance of 'otherness', because the truth (it could easily happen to your child) is too unbearable to contemplate.
(11) The results are interpreted to suggest that persons who commit homicide-suicide are acting out a three-party rescue fantasy in an attempt to resolve unbearable stress.
(12) Almost 800 have taken the first step to taking their lives by becoming members of Dignitas, and 34 men and women, who feel their suffering has become unbearable, are ready to travel to Zurich and take a lethal drug overdose.
(13) Their songs ranged from the almost unbearably poignant ("Hand in Glove") to the frankly vulnerable ("How Soon is Now").
(14) Without medication the pain is unbearable: during some of my worst attacks, I've been known to bang my head on the wall.
(15) I have tickets for the knock-out rounds and it would be unbearable if Portugal were already on a plane home.
(16) Pessimists predict a human tide that will put an unbearable burden on food, jobs, schools, housing and healthcare.
(17) Watched by a quiet, oddly tense crowd of onlookers, the couple looked almost unbearably young and vulnerable – as if, one observer joked, on their way to the guillotine.
(18) He wanted to openly condemn this unbearable situation.
(19) The second half roared on towards its conclusion, the tension close to unbearable, when he announced that he would have to nip out once more as his earlier exit had clearly been the reason for Jô’s goal.
(20) After the election, when interest rates are rising and public services are falling apart, Labour would find governing impossible and unbearable if they had signed up to Osborne's killer cuts.