unspeakably

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un·speak·a·ble

(ŭn-spē′kə-bəl)

adj.

1. Beyond description; inexpressible: unspeakable happiness.

2. Inexpressibly bad or objectionable: unspeakable poverty.

3. Not to be spoken: unspeakable thoughts.

un·speak′a·ble·ness n.

un·speak′a·bly adv.

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Adv.

unspeakably - to an inexpressible degree; "she was looking very young tonight, and, as usual, indescribably beautiful, in a simple strapless dress of a green and white silky cotton"

indescribably, ineffably, unutterably

Translations

بصورَةٍ لا توصَف

nepopsatelně

unsäglich

affreusement ineffablement

viîbjóîslega

neopísateľne

anlatılamayacak şekilde

无法形容地

unspeakably

[ʌnˈspiːkəblɪ] ADV to suffer unspeakably → sufrir lo indecible
it was unspeakably bad → fue horroroso

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

unspeakably

adv → unbeschreiblich, unsagbar

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

unspeakably

[ʌnˈspiːkəblɪ] adv → indicibilmente

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

unspeakable

(anˈspiːkəbl) adjective

that cannot be expressed in words, especially because too bad to describe. his unspeakable cruelty/rudeness.

unˈspeakably adverb

The house is unspeakably filthy.

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MY BELOVED MAKAR ALEXIEVITCH,--I am unspeakably rejoiced at your good fortune, and fully appreciate the kindness of your superior.

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If you will, therefore, have the unspeakably great kindness of taking my part with her, and persuading her to send Sir James away, I shall be more obliged to you than it is possible for me to express.

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To a man of my sentiments it is unspeakably gratifying to be able to say this.

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Unspeakably frightened, I turned and saw a portly, kind-faced gentleman, who asked:

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There was something fungoid in the oily brown skin, something in the clumsy deliberation of the tedi- ous movements unspeakably nasty.

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There was he, suffering so unspeakably, and there was I, the pitiless cause of it all, so utterly impenetrable to all the artillery of his looks and words, so calmly cold and proud, he could not but feel some resentment; and with singular bitterness he began--"I certainly did not expect this, Miss Murray.

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- There was something either in that smile or the recollections it awakened that was particularly displeasing to her, for she suddenly assumed again that proud, chilly look that had so unspeakably roused my aversion at church - a look of repellent scorn, so easily assumed, and so entirely without the least distortion of a single feature, that, while there, it seemed like the natural expression of the face, and was the more provoking to me, because I could not think it affected.

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He was so ungainly, so pimply about the head, so scaly about the legs, yet so serene, so unspeakably satisfied!

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Every little while some giant tree yielded the fight and fell crashing through the younger growth; and the unflagging thunder- peals came now in ear-splitting explosive bursts, keen and sharp, and unspeakably appalling.

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A mortal pallor covered those features, which he had known so charming and so gentle, and sorrow had furrowed them with pitiless lines and traced dark and unspeakably sad shadows under her eyes.

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He slept in the office that was unspeakably dirty and dined at Biff Carter's lunch room in a small frame building opposite the railroad station.

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Smallpox laid its hideous clutches upon him; leaving him unspeakably branded with its repulsive marks.