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unspeakably en · ADV

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Etymology

Etymology tree English unspeakable Middle English -ly English -ly English unspeakably From unspeakable + -ly.

Meanings

1. In an unspeakable manner.
   • 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. 2001, Mike Royko, For the Love of Mike: More of the Best of Mike Royko, →ISBN, page 232:
   • 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. 2021 March 22, Ariane de Vogue, “Supreme Court agrees to review Boston Marathon bomber’s death penalty case”, in CNN:
   • "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. 2010 August 22, “North Korea demands apology, reparations from Japan over colonization”, in CNN:

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