(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.
Utterable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being uttered.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the experiments to be reported here, computer-averaged EMG data were obtained from PCA of native speakers of American English, Japanese, and Danish who uttered test words embedded in frame sentences.
(2) This study examined the frequency of occurrence of velar deviations in spontaneous single-word utterances over a 6-month period for 40 children who ranged in age from 1:11 (years:months) to 3:1 at the first observation.
(3) Her speech suggested the kind of Republican who would truly "raise the conversation", and if it seems like settling to want an opposition party to simply not be so utterly vindictive, well, yes, I will settle for that.
(4) Theresa May has shown a complete and utter lack of interest in Northern Ireland since taking office.
(5) The results of the present study focused on differences in types of self-touching by patients and physicians, semantic content of utterances when self-touching was displayed, and temporal location of self-touching within the speech stream.
(6) A single-subject design was applied to study increase in functional use of language by a 14-yr.-old Down Syndrome girl from a mean length of utterance of 1.3 words to 4.4 in a classroom, 5.1 in the restaurant, and 4.7 during transportation.
(7) The media is utterly self-obsessed and we get more ink than perhaps we should do.
(8) Instead, because of other people, it all too often becomes something else: a complete and utter hell.
(9) Three male and 2 female subjects produced six repetitions of 12 utterances that were initiated and terminated by vowels and consonants of differing phonetic features.
(10) The infant, who was utterly small for his gestational age, showed an aberrant motoric pattern and a high forehead, low-set ears, a prominent occiput and scoliosis, an extension defect in the knee joints and flexed, ulnar-deviated wrists.
(11) "How these union bosses get elected, how they raise money, how they disperse money is a complete and utter mystery.
(12) Thus in your own words you have said why it was utterly inappropriate for you to use the platform of a Pac hearing in this way.” He suggested that many professionals were “in despair at the lack of understanding and cheap haranguing which characterise your manner” after a series of hearings at which Hodge has led fierce interrogations of senior business figures and others.
(13) Much of the research dealing with linguistic dimensions in stuttering has emphasized the various aspects of grammar, particularly as these aspects contribute to the meaning of utterances.
(14) That's completely and utterly grotesque and, no matter how proud we all are in the labour movement that the minimum wage exists, not a single day goes by that we shouldn't be disgusted with ourselves for that.
(15) The changes in Parkinsonian subjects of the cross-sectional area during the utterance of sustained sounds are attributed to both Parkinsonian tremor and rigidity.
(16) Too distressed to utter more than a single word - "Devastated" - in the immediate aftermath of her withdrawal, a pale and red-eyed Radcliffe emerged yesterday to give her version of the events that ended the attempt to crown her career with a gold medal.
(17) Informed sources in Germany said Merkel was livid about the reports that the NSA had bugged her phone and was convinced, on the basis of a German intelligence investigation, that the reports were utterly substantiated.
(18) | Hugh Muir Read more Wherever Labour people gather to discuss how to break out of the vice tightening around the party, answers fail amid sighs of utter despair.
(19) The IFS says similar declines emerge if you set the figure as low as 40% of median income – utterly refuting Nick Clegg's toxic line dismissing the threshold as just "poverty plus a pound" .
(20) "Public sector workers and their families are utterly shocked by Jeremy Clarkson's revolting comments.