insupportable

Example Sentences

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That would be an unprecedented and insupportable departure from the centuries-old tradition that the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2021

“It is my aunts who are being driven by malice and greed to make the vexatious, false, and insupportable allegations which form the basis of their probate lawsuit in New Hampshire,” he said.

From Washington Times • Feb. 7, 2018

That people who were so vulnerable and needed special care were instead treated as an afterthought is insupportable.

From Washington Post • Sep. 17, 2017

The act wasn’t repealed until America’s alliance with the Chinese during World War II made it insupportable.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 2, 2016

Most people would have termed her a splendid woman of her age: and so she was, no doubt, physically speaking; but then there was an expression of almost insupportable haughtiness in her bearing and countenance.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë