Insupportable

Word INSUPPORTABLE
Character 13
Hyphenation in sup port a ble
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Definitions and meanings of "Insupportable"

What do we mean by insupportable?

Not endurable; intolerable. adjective

Lacking grounds or defense; unjustifiable. adjective

Not supportable; incapable of being supported or borne; insufferable; intolerable.

Irresistible.

Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable adjective

Not supportable; incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable. adjective

Incapable of being justified or explained adjective

That cannot be tolerated or endured.

(of a statement, claim, argument, etc.) That cannot be supported; that cannot be demonstrated or proved.

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The word "insupportable" in example sentences

QUOTATION: To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported. ❋ Epictetus. A.D. C. 50-c. 138. (1919)

To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported. ❋ John Bartlett (1862)

She called him "insupportable:" she railed at him for a "dévot:" she did not love, but she wanted to marry, that she might bind him to her interest. ❋ Charlotte Bront�� (1835)

“It is my duty,” says Sir Charles Bell, “to visit certain wards of the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain and certain death. ❋ Unknown (2006)

In the original divorce petition Bullock said the marriage had become "insupportable" due to "discord or conflict of personalities that destroys the legitimate ends of the marriage relationship". ❋ Unknown (2010)

"It is my duty," says Sir Charles Bell, "to visit certain wards of the hospital where there is no patient admitted but with that complaint which most fills the imagination with the idea of insupportable pain and certain death. ❋ Unknown (1832)

A sales tax or a bicycle tax or insurance requirement would be insupportable burdens. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Instead the authors attempt to downplay the hazards of mercury, a highly potent neurotoxin itself linked to developmental disorders, and they make the preposterous, insupportable assertion that reducing any air pollution from power plants will "do nothing" to reduce health threats. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Criticism from the Vatican's newspaper was matched by Avvenire, the newspaper of the Italian Bishops 'conference, which denounced Berlusconi's "insupportable blasphemy and Jewish stereotyping". ❋ Tom Kington In Rome (2010)

I like how the court thinks; I am increasingly of the opinion that the multifactor confusion test, though it has its weaknesses, is superior to the rigid and ultimately insupportable falsity/misleadingness distinction. ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2009)

This issue has always been a red herring, arising because the government tried to argue that the individual mandate can be justified under Congress's power to tax, even if it is insupportable under the power to regulate interstate commerce. ❋ David B. Rivkin Jr. (2011)

*** We have already seen that the authors of the IPCC report have made one fundamental mistake in how they analyze their data, drawing conclusions based on an insupportable basic assumption. ❋ Douglas J. Keenan (2011)

For example, even US Democrats agree with Tea party activists in the Republican party that if the US repeats what it did in the 2000s, then US public debt will double and become insupportable. ❋ Unknown (2011)

This is insupportable in an economy of tight financial restraint. ❋ Unknown (2012)

He predicted that “under our present establishment, we shall become a nusance, an insupportable charge to our country, and never answer any one expectation of the Assembly.” ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

The U.S. Climate Change Science Program, which advises Congress, published its report on temperature increases in 2006, and relied on the same insupportable assumption. ❋ Douglas J. Keenan (2011)

He also criticized as "insupportable" the silence at the U.N. Security Council, where China and Russia are blocking the resolution. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Nobody would start from here – an ill-designed single currency interacting with an insupportable burden of private debt created by oversized, undercapitalised banks. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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