unmentionable

Example Sentences

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She plans to sweep away the cobwebs and inject warmth and life into a farm mired in portentous dialogue and unmentionable secrets.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

That relationship, once an unmentionable topic, is now on the agenda of the winning party.

From BBC • May 15, 2023

Her continued focus on class, the great American unmentionable, made Ms. Tax a distinct voice.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2022

Family friends recalled Irina McCarthy as her mother’s best friend and their own children’s favorite babysitter, who calmly read aloud the definitions of “various unmentionable words” as the kids giggled endlessly.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 12, 2022

At the very center of the problem is the naked cold deadness of one’s own self, the only reality in nature of which we can have absolute certainty, and it is unmentionable, unthinkable.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas