(a.) Not speakable; incapable of being uttered or adequately described; inexpressible; unutterable; ineffable; as, unspeakable grief or rage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mr Hunt, your plans for the health service have revealed a worrying ignorance of the realities of life in the NHS, and your comments about our lack of professionalism and vocation are unspeakably insulting.
(2) It portrays a bad moment in an event full of unspeakable moments.
(3) Jonathan Franzen , no friend to the rapid onward march of technology, has now turned his ire on Twitter, reportedly describing the microblogging site as "unspeakably irritating" at a book reading.
(4) They might be accused of unspeakable crimes, but Mladic's peers are – on paper – a high-calibre bunch, including over the years a president, a prime minister, defence ministers, interior ministers, and army and intelligence chiefs.
(5) As I told them in Dakar, Hissène Habré did unspeakable things to me.
(6) For 15 years, Matthew Shepard’s unspeakably brutal murder on a lonely prairie in Wyoming has been a byword for the very worst of American anti-gay bigotry and a rallying cry for a more tolerant, more inclusive society.
(7) Bateman's unspeakable imaginings are the disease of an imperviously complacent world.
(8) "Any parallel with the affairs of the Berlusconi family is therefore not only inappropriate and incomprehensible but also offensive to the memory of those who were deprived of all rights and, after atrocious and unspeakable suffering, deprived of their lives."
(9) The Garner family and I have always stressed that we do not believe that all police are bad, in fact we have stressed that most police are not bad.” Later the US justice secretary, Eric Holder, condemned what he called an “unspeakable act of barbarism”.
(10) The home office minister, Beverley Hughes, went as far as to brand the programme "unspeakably sick".
(11) At the time of the plaque’s removal , Brian Kwoba, one of the campaigners, said Rhodes was “responsible for all manner of stealing land, massacring tens of thousands of black Africans, imposing a regime of unspeakable labour exploitation in the diamond mines and devising proto-apartheid policies”.
(12) Obviously to do that to anybody is pretty low, but to do that to somebody who trusted you and cared about you is just unspeakable."
(13) March 4, 2016 matt blaze (@mattblaze) Cyber pathogens are so unspeakably dangerous that the open research community has wisely never published a single paper about them.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Of course their unspeakably obnoxious stage manner was not to everybody’s taste.
(15) Abbott said if it was confirmed the plane was shot down, “that is an unspeakable crime and the perpetrators must be brought to justice”.
(16) Photograph: Supplied In Oscar compound, where the hunger strike started a day later, protesting asylum seekers chanted at the gates: “Freedom, Freedom, Freedom.” The men in Foxtrot held a silent protest at the wire gate of the compound, standing in the rain for two hours in an unspeaking vigil.
(17) The novel opens with Clay's return from New York to Los Angeles, where he quickly becomes embroiled in a Hollywood-noir thriller plot involving threatening texts from unseen stalkers, dark and duplicitous sex, sinister disappearances and the requisite scenes of unspeakable violence.
(18) Even so, the changing circumstances of al-Shabaab's increasing aggression and apparent lack of central command have led to unspeakable violence against Somali and international civilians, and is a question that demands a robust answer.
(19) In her 1963 novel A Summer Birdcage , Margaret Drabble’s narrator Sarah describes a “loathsome flat” in the King’s Road, Chelsea, and an “unspeakably sordid” place in Highgate.
(20) They had suffered what their lawyers describe as "unspeakable acts of brutality" including castration, beatings and severe sexual assaults.
Unutterable
Definition:
(a.) Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced; inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable anguish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here, too, Capote displayed uncanny journalistic skills, capturing even the most languid and enigmatic of subjects – Brando in his pomp – and eliciting the kinds of confidences that left the actor reflecting ruefully on his "unutterable foolishness".
(2) The organisations that find and train men like Atta have since been responsible for unutterable crimes in many countries and societies, from England to Iraq, in their attempt to create a system where the cold and loveless zombie would be the norm, and culture would be dead.
(3) For a mother to bury her child in any circumstances is truly agonising but to bury your child when you know she died in such an appalling way is unutterably awful.
(4) Now he's returning to the stage with another flawed, difficult character: Brooklyn longshoreman Eddie Carbone, the tragic hero of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge , whose pride and unutterable obsession with his niece lead him towards the betrayal of his family and his community.
(5) "For a mother to bury her child in any circumstances is truly agonising, but to bury your child when you know she died in such an appalling way is unutterably awful."
(6) Frances Crook of the Howard League for Penal Reform echoed those concerns, saying: “These latest figures on safety in custody are unutterably terrible.
(7) In comments published the day after the upper house of the Italian parliament approved the historic expulsion of the three-times prime minister, who was convicted in August of tax fraud, Francesca Pascale said the move was "a coup d'état" that had caused her "unutterable bitterness".
(8) You'd think it would be tricky having to wake up and face the dawning realisation that every word in your vernacular to describe ethnic minorities is now unutterably wrong.
(9) I ask her if she agrees with the critic who called Brand New Ancients “beautiful but unutterably bleak” and she looks taken aback.
(10) But their pitch was repeatedly passed over, for the perfectly understandable reason that TV commissioners felt that watching people make cakes would be unutterably dull.
(11) It's comedy as bravery - an attempt to make laughter from unutterable grief.
(12) It is unutterably sad that women have lived and died nursing an unfulfilled vocation to serve as priests.
(13) Let's not add another episode of " unutterable shame " to Australia's archive of atrocity.
(14) Like whistling in the dark, we all sing together sometimes when we’re afraid, soldiers marching in unison to It’s a Long Way to Tipperary, and we choose songs to make light of things that are unutterably gloomy.
(15) Britain had its own soap operas, of course, but they were either as down-to-earth as we could make them ( Coronation Street set the trend, beginning in 1960 as a portrait of a working-class street in an age of transition and still staying fairly true to its gritty roots in the late 1970s when Dallas turned up), or they were unutterable rubbish done on the cheap by a pool of typing monkeys, like Crossroads , the saga of a Birmingham motel.