unspeakably

English

Etymology

From unspeakable +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

unspeakably (comparative more unspeakably, superlative most unspeakably)

  1. In an unspeakable manner.
    • 2001, Mike Royko, For the Love of Mike: More of the Best of Mike Royko‎[1], →ISBN, page 232:
      My point is that we shouldn't be too hard on the Star, the unspeakably vile supermarket tabloid that has been trying to dirty up Governor Bill Clinton.
    • 2010 August 22, “North Korea demands apology, reparations from Japan over colonization”, in CNN‎[2]:
      "The Japanese imperialists enforced the harshest colonial rule in history over Korea, bringing unspeakably horrible misfortune and sufferings and disasters to the Korean nation," said a spokesman for the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency.
    • 2021 March 22, Ariane de Vogue, “Supreme Court agrees to review Boston Marathon bomber’s death penalty case”, in CNN‎[3]:
      Last July, a federal appeals court said that Tsarnaev will remain in prison for the rest of his life for “unspeakably brutal acts,” but that he should be given a new penalty-phase trial, citing jury selection issues and a failure to properly screen jurors for bias.
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