indefinable
Example Sentences
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Of course, beauty is subject to taste and culture and all sorts of indefinable things.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2026
It expresses a general anxiety the prompt of which is indefinable, a nagging sense that has no singularly compelling explanation.
From Salon • Dec. 27, 2024
And that work, which exists in some indefinable terrain between off-the-rack categories like “traditional” and “modern,” is truly magnetic.
From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2022
The crushing of the belief that the Seattle ballclub, by dint of some indefinable flaw in their DNA, would always wilt and wither in crunchtime.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2022
There was an odor of trouble, an indefinable wrong.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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